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

[Daniel Jimenez]

AGAIN,

If you can't reproduce it just email me. I can reproduce it all over the
place and might even let you have a shell account to the server to check it
out.

cuban
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fredriksson, Andreas" <andreas.fredriksson at dice.se>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:20 AM
Subject: [bf1942] Linux server status report: 2003-03-31


>
> Hello people, here's the status update for last week.
>
> - Win32 and Linux code has been merged into a common codebase. This
>   has the side effect that we cannot instantly release a new 1.31 patch
>   since the head revision of our code contains changes not yet released
>   for win32.
>
>   We are considering a backport of all our fixes to 1.31 but I can't
>   comment on the status of that right now until management has had a
>   time to look at it. I'll keep you posted.
>
> - 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 server now uses the same threaded UDP I/O subsystem as the win32
>   server but does so without increasing the thread priority of the
listener
>   thread. We haven't had any problems with this yet but it might not work
>   out for some slower or very busy machines. We believe this is a good
> change
>   in the long run though.
>
> - We have not been able to reproduce the Bungee effect; it might be
related
>   to the single threaded I/O used in the earlier betas.
>
> I'll keep you posted with information on upcoming releases and status
> reports.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas