[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6501) tririeme on "auto-attack"?

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:11:27AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> >  But I suspect 
> > you sent a packet too late, trireme has moved by the time the packet was 
> > processed and as a result it got misinterpreted.
> 
> Yes.  I sent the packet before the trireme was moved (at least, before 
> the client knew about it), 

> but naturally the server didn't start reading such packets until the
> next turn started.

Correct. There is no way that a client can interject a packet if the
server does end-of-turn.

> I believe this is a bug.  Certainly we should not get such odd behavior 
> in this case.  Probably the erronous packet should be detected and 
> discarded. 

> Most likely we should audit the server to do sanity-checking on all
> received packets.

We already do this in all places and with a lot of detail.

I however have also no idea what caused the error.

        Raimar

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