Hey everyone, Perhaps someone can shed some light on the difference between when a user uses command "retry" as opposed to "reconnect". From the outside their functionality appears identical, however, thanks to a regular user of ours a bug in software I have been writing has reared its ugly head. Users who use "reconnect" are able to crash the server.
Keeping in mind I am using threads, and doing a few other non-standard things. I am locking mutex appropriately, and as I said, when users use retry all is fine. The HLDS error is: L 08/15/2003 - 00:21:16: FATAL ERROR (shutting down): NUM_FOR_EDICT: bad pointer and is created by: CLIENT_PRINTF(pPlayer->m_pEdict, print_console, log_str); Yes this is easily solved with a check for a valid player, but then that player is then able to bypass that function, which is involved in deciding if they should be allowed on the server or not, so I need to identify how their player pointer somehow becomes either invalid, or full of garbage. Any light anyone can shed on this would be useful. Cheers, James _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
