I was trying to convert a C source to Pascal. It uses signals, and I thought that these things were not available on Win platforms.

Documentation talks about signals in oldlinux and baseunix units only (Linux).

Then I went on the signals.pp unit in:

C:\fpc\...\source\rtl\win32\signals.pp

I understand the function signal, but I don't see a way to "Raise" a signal.

(a second question is that I can't understand how to raise a signal under Linux without using the oldlinux unit)

Could someone enlight me?

tiziano

There isn't a proper way;
Signals on windows have totally different semantics than on Linux/unix. You should not try to imitate them.

(a second question is that I can't understand how to raise a signal under Linux without using the oldlinux unit)

use the fpKill etc functions in baseunix/unix. They have the same names as the oldlinux ones, with 'fp' prepended.

Michael.

Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:

I agree, so I removed all signal related code from the C source and in win32 I used other things.

But then, what is signals.pp meant for?

tiziano

It tries to do (for a limited amount of signals) what I advise not to do :-)

Michael.