[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Ctrl-D in server (PR#936)

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:06:07AM +0100, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:02:47AM -0700, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:02:03AM -0700, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > > CVS 03 SEP 2001 i386 Linux w/ readline support
> > > > 
> > > > When you type Ctrl-D in the server, you get:
> > > > 
> > > > 2: Server cannot read standard input. Ignoring input.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > If you type it a second time, the input is blocked.
> > > > You cannot issue any server commands then.
> > > 
> > > I think this is a feature rather than a bug. 
> > 
> > > Didn't it previously exit the server if you did a CTRL-D?
> > 
> > AFAIK yes. This is the way unix programs work.
> 
> I made a patch once that made it work "the UNIX way", but we run civserver
> in civserver.freeciv.org inside shell scripts kind of like this:
> 
> civserver < /dev/null > logfile 2>&1
> 
> If civserver works "the UNIX way" it will simply exit. If we don't ignore
> stdin the server can hangup. So closing stdin is a good option.
> 
> Civserver on civserver.freeciv.org is more of a UNIX daemon than a UNIX
> utility. UNIX daemons close stdin and redirect stdout & stderr to a
> logfile - this is basically what we are doing.

This is another reason to think about a PUBLIC_SERVER define or a
"--demonize" command line option.

        Raimar

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