[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10283) "Disconnect" menu item

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10283 >

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Mateusz Stefek wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10283 >
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> Do we need this item?
> It makes conndlg implementation very complicated and buggy.
> For example if the internal server is killed the zombie process isn't
> grabbed, because we cannot kill server inside close_socket_callback().
> There are also many similar bugs.
> IMO things will be much easier if we assume that we are always connected
> to the internal server.

Agreed, but there may be connection loss FWIW. This is due to the
tcptimeout and netwait values. The server will not wait for a severely
lagged client forever. Perhaps local spawned servers should use blocking
I/O, or perhaps not.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa