Re: CF: Crossfire 0.95.2 package naming

[Christian Stieber <stieber@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>]

Anthony Thyssen (anthony@cit.gu.edu.au) wrote:

> Idea. Have the client program automatically start and kill the local
> server if the program can be found, a local server wasn't running and no
> specific server was given. 

I had this kind of setup for quite some time --- it's not easily
implemented.  The client needs to be setuid <server owner>, you need
lockfiles to prevent multiple servers from popping up on different
machines (and be sure to handle ctrl-c properly or the lockfiles will
stay around), you need to store the current server machine
somewhere... this kind of stuff.

> This would make it easier for the newbies and the player who play on a
> thier own server.

Hm... granted, it would be easier for non-networked machines, but it
doesn't really make much sense to run crossfire on such a machine
anyway (IMHO, of course) --- too boring.

Christian


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