[Freeciv-Dev] Re: mingw status (server + lan server bugs)

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Andreas Røsdal wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > I compiled up newest cvs gtk2 with my old mingw32 environment, and have
> > two considerable problems:
> >   - the server does not accept any input, all input seems to be buffered
> > and sent to the command shell after the app exits; clients cannot connect
> > (do not finish connection sequence)
> >   - pressing the 'LAN servers' tab then 'refresh' button crashes the
> > client - it freezes and must be closed from windows; I can't get gdb to
> > resume after this happen so no backtrace
> >
> > On the bright side, the client seems much faster now.
>
> I think this is because the socket for UDP multicast is blocking,
> even though it's set to be nonblocking.
>
> This can be fixed by using select(), like it's done several
> places in /server/sernet.c.  I can make a patch for this.

UDP is connectionless. Make sure you aren't getting bogged down doing
a DNS name lookup.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa