Excellent! This was frustrating me to no end. I've simply been trying to tell if a player is connected or not. As you have indicated, when a player disconnects, the pointer is still valid or not null. I'll stick the FREE_PRIVATE(pClient) in the clientDisconnect function and see if it doesn't clear things up.
--- James Couzens ClanMod Dev Team WWW: http://unitedadmins.com/clanmod.php UA LISTS: http://list.unitedadmins.com/mailman/listinfo ----- Original Message ----- From: "matthew lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 7:58 PM Subject: [hlcoders] SDK line crashing linux servers This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] The problem is that the CBasePlayerClass memory has been released, but the pointer is still around. This typically happens when you have entities owned by a player that disconnects unexpectantly. The entity then tries to reference the now invalid player using the old pointer and the result is a core dump. This is an old pet peave I've had with Valve for a long time in that there is no definitive call to the engine to ask if a player is fully connected. There is one other thing that will cause problems that you shoud be aware of. I'm assuming that since your asking if the player is a net client that you're trying to tell a player from a bot. You should know that the bot's private data is a different size than a normal player. But the engine fails to free the private data when a bot or player disconnects and instead tries to reuse it. This causes all sorts of strange behaviour and mysterious crashing when running bots. Make sure you call "FREE_PRIVATE(pClient)" at the end of the CHalflifeMultiplay::ClientDisconnect() routine to prevent this from happening. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
