[Freeciv-Dev] Re: game.timeout

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 04:01:48PM -0600, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 04:39:25PM -0400, Mark Metson wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> > 
> > > does anybody have any idea why GAME_MAX_TIMEOUT 
> > > is set at 8639999? Why not MAX_INT 
> > > 
> > > or make game.timeout an unsigned or an unsigned long?
> > 
> > Did anyone find out why it doesnt work, too? I found when I set timeout to 
> > 24 hours it would briefly display as such each turn but promptly get 
> > overwritten as 5 hours 37 minutes.
> 
> Attached is the fix. Somebody (Trent in '98) decided that 18 hours and 16 
> bits was
> quite enough.
> 

> Note that this breaks network protocol.

And so requires a new capability.

> maintainers: what do we want to do about this? I'm inclined to say:
> now's a good a time as any to break it, (raimar: don't you have some 
> network efficiency code lying around waiting for such an opportunity?)

Not a current one.

        Raimar

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