[Freeciv-Dev] Re: gtk client core dump

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 04:28:17PM +0000, Ben Webb wrote:
> 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.

The explanation sounds right. And yes the agents_game_joined call is
at the wrong place.

        Raimar

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