>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:42:30AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>
>> The old 1.0.x symbols have been deprecated in 2.2.0+, new variants exist
>> that have proper typing and (standarized) errorhandling. These new variants
>> are called prefix with fp, so fprecvfrom.
>>
>> These are all documented in
>> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sockets/index-5.html (though badly,
>> they are not aliases, they are the real thing)
>>
>> The deprecated functions are also possibly buggy, don't use them. There are
>> several bugreports with these functions behaving strange.
>
> Thanks Marco, I see them now.
>
> Any thoughts on how to get select() and associated procedures working?
Yes. Use them from baseunix (fpselect fpset* etc). See docs.
Under Unix they are not just for sockets, hence they are not in the socket
units, but in the general api.
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