[Lazarus] stale pipe workarounds

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:

> On 2016-11-20 03:50, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
>> It just makes me scared that there is this hack/fix needed.
>
>
> No need to worry, the Lazarus code is outdated. That fix is already in
> FPC 2.6.4 too, and any FPC release after that.
>
> I've been using SimplyIPC for many things and it has worked very well.
> eg: Implementing a single instance application feature. The second
> instance will detected the IPC comms, and use it to tell the first
> instance what to do (eg: open another file), then the second instance
> will terminate.
>
> I've also implemented a visual logging/debugging program, using
> simpleIPC, to overcome some shortcomings of Lazarus+GDB debugging. Think
> Raize Software's CodeSite product for Delphi (but not as advanced). In
> this tool I did notice one issue with SimpleIPC under Windows only. When
> I fired 100's of log events per second, under Windows, I lost some
> messages. I believe I did file a bug report on this. It was some 5-6
> years ago, and it was a very specific case. For day-to-day usage,
> SimpleIPC works perfectly though.

The windows issue should meanwhile have been fixed, all platforms now use a queue.

Michael.