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Article #5359Re: gnuchessx hanging after openings
From: Tim Mann
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1993 19:59
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1993 19:59
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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
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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