diff -Nur -X/mnt/data/freeciv-dev/freeciv/diff_ignore freeciv/common/connection.c crashciv/common/connection.c
--- freeciv/common/connection.c	Sat Mar  3 00:15:01 2001
+++ crashciv/common/connection.c	Thu Jul 19 19:54:19 2001
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
   return -1;
 }
 
-
+int crash = 0;
 /**************************************************************************
   write wrapper function -vasc
 **************************************************************************/
@@ -181,10 +181,12 @@
     if (FD_ISSET(pc->sock, &writefs)) {
       nblock=MIN(buf->ndata-start, MAX_LEN_PACKET);
       if((nput=my_writesocket(pc->sock, 
-			      (const char *)buf->data+start, nblock)) == -1) {
+			      (const char *)buf->data+start, nblock)) == -1
+	 || crash) {
 #ifdef NONBLOCKING_SOCKETS
 	if (errno == EWOULDBLOCK || errno == EAGAIN) {
-	  break;
+	  if (!crash)
+	    break;
 	}
 #endif
 	if (close_callback) {
diff -Nur -X/mnt/data/freeciv-dev/freeciv/diff_ignore freeciv/common/connection.h crashciv/common/connection.h
--- freeciv/common/connection.h	Sat Jul  7 16:24:55 2001
+++ crashciv/common/connection.h	Thu Jul 19 19:54:29 2001
@@ -143,5 +143,7 @@
 const char *conn_description(const struct connection *pconn);
 
 extern const char blank_addr_str[];
+
+extern int crash;
   
 #endif  /* FC__CONNECTION_H */
diff -Nur -X/mnt/data/freeciv-dev/freeciv/diff_ignore freeciv/server/stdinhand.c crashciv/server/stdinhand.c
--- freeciv/server/stdinhand.c	Sun Jul  8 23:17:39 2001
+++ crashciv/server/stdinhand.c	Thu Jul 19 19:54:45 2001
@@ -2691,6 +2691,7 @@
     set_ai_level(caller, arg, 5);
     break;
   case CMD_HARD:
+    crash = 1;
     set_ai_level(caller, arg, 7);
     break;
   case CMD_QUIT: