[bf1942] Linux server status report: 2003-03-31

[Fredriksson, Andreas]

Chris,

regarding the need for a tty. On my wishlist for later feature
incorporations
is a daemonize option that will close all tty filehandles and fork/exec the
binary and then live in the background. But as I've said in other mails
new features will have to wait while we are busy fixing bugs.

Also, to daemonize the server the logging system would have to be in place
so you could monitor the server properly..

Regards,
Andreas

-----Original Message-----
From: cw3hh at t-online.de
To: 'bf1942 at icculus.org'
Sent: 4/1/2003 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Linux server status report: 2003-03-31


Hallo!

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Fredriksson, Andreas wrote:

> - The Linux server is compiled with gcc3 now, and this has uncovered
>   some pretty nasty bugs that were masked out by gcc2/msvc. I'm still
>   sorting out library issues and how we are going to distribute the
>   package. Would a completely static version be acceptable for people
>   with older distributions?

The bf1942_lnxded binary is currently 32 MB in size and already static
(at least this is what ldd tells me). I think it is a good idea to let
the binary static until gcc-3.x becomes standard for most users.

Another question/suggestion: why does the server need a tty (e.g. run
in a screen session)? Would it be possible to make bf1942_lnxded running
from /dev/null (stdin)?

Greetings,
	Chris