[Freeciv-Dev] Re: gtk client core dump

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Jason Short wrote:

> Ben Webb wrote:
> > This is PR#1259, which has been erroneously marked as "fixed". See 
> > http://www.freeciv.org/cgi-bin/bugs/fixed?id=1259;user=guest;selectid=1259#followup2
> >  
> > for my explanation of the problem (which I can only assume was ignored at 
> > the time ;)
> 
> I don't understand why this makes it impossible for a current-cvs client 
> to connect to a Jan 20th-server, but possible to connect to a 1.12.0 server.

        The incorrect capabilities test causes a call to freeze() to be 
skipped when connecting to a Jan 20th server. Then a later call to thaw() 
fails. I _think_ it works with a 1.12.0 server (not sure, haven't tested) 
because 1.12.0 doesn't send out START_TURN packets, and so doesn't trigger 
the agents_start_turn function - which calls thaw() - on the client.

        Ben
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