Giga Games 1/Giga Games.iso/net/hack/2_3/nfs.fix

Text File | 1993-06-20 | 859 b | 20 lines

There is a bug in nethack 2.2 which shows up when the playground is
on a networked filesystem visible to several machines. The symptom is
a "Can't open alock. Perhaps someone removed it." error when attempting
to save a game or go up a level. The problem lies in the veryold() routine
in unix.c which looks to see if the process which created the lock file is
still running, and if not removes it. Well, on a network the chances are
that the process won't running on the current machine, but will be running
on another. My solution was just to remove the check for the existing pid
and replace it with a return 0. Perhaps better would be another #define
for NETWORKED?
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