[Freeciv-Dev] Re: connect dialog update

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:58:31PM -0500, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
> > Pipe just calls for problems on windows. Create a file with the
> > cookie, chmod it that no other can read it and give the server the
> > filename.
> > 
> 
> <cheap shot>Windows doesn't have chmod either.</cheap>
> 
> More seriously, though, this patch allows for that.  Just prepend
> "setpassword " to the cookie file and pass it in with -r.  This is
> probably gui-specific code anyway, so doing files on windows and pipes
> everywhere else is fine.
> 
> Making the server (which is almost purely cross-platform) fully general is
> the most elegant and future-proof way of doing this.  It can take the
> password by file, pipe or network.  It will run on Linux, Windows, Eros,
> Linux-on-CD, or some futuristic "network is computer" sort of system.

If the client starts the server from a filesystem and the server needs
a place in the filesystem where is can store savegames (so at least
one dir is writeable for the server) a file is all we need. Pipe and
network are just superfluous.

        Raimar

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