On 2013-02-06 20:17, Sven Barth wrote: > > If you just define your own semaphore class that contains the platform > specific types and lock and unlock methods then you only need to add an > additional "array[0..4] of Longint" after the "sem_t" field for FreeBSD. > Then you should be okay.
Yes that will work, but it simply moves the problems or IFDEF's to a different location. > You need to use at least synchronisation primitives like mutexes otherwise > it won't be threadsafe. Yes, that is what I am planning. The class I am working with is a Thread Pool, so thread safety is a given. ;-) At least I don't need cross-process semaphore support, only multiple threads in the same process. So this makes things a lot easier. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
