🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: gnu.chess
Article #5359

Re: gnuchessx hanging after openings

#5359
From: Tim Mann
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1993 19:59
16 lines
1391 bytes
Mike Sommerville tells me that he was able to work around the problem
he had, where gnuchess would seem to hang after leaving its opening
book, by adding -DATTENTION to the DEFINES line in his xboard
Imakefile.  (Then, of course, typing "make Makefile; rm *.o; make".)

Mike is running on Solaris 2.1.  This symptom indicates that the
FIONREAD ioctl used in gnuchess to poll the keyboard for input is not
working on Mike's system; I still don't understand why.

Maybe the same thing would work for Dave Lewney on Solaris 2.2.

Maybe I should ship xboard with -DATTENTION defined by default.  I
think it is harmless even on systems that don't need it.  However, I'd
still like to know why FIONREAD isn't working on some systems.

	--Tim
Technical Details
Message-ID: <28sjne$1bi@src-news.pa.dec.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!tadpole.com!news.dell.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!src.dec.com!mann
References: <1993Sep30.105453.18274@unix.brighton.ac.uk>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,e5789593f8dfd6da
X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-10-05 13:19:43 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!tadpole.com!news.dell.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!src.dec.com!mann
From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
Newsgroups: gnu.chess
Subject: Re: gnuchessx hanging after openings
Date: 5 Oct 1993 19:59:42 GMT
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <28sjne$1bi@src-news.pa.dec.com>
References: <1993Sep30.105453.18274@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cypress.pa.dec.com