pln_equip() refuses to abandon its base sector. Unfortunately, it
checks even when flying off carriers, and refuses to load the last
civilian or military depending on what happens to be in uninitialized
variable sect.
Broken in commit 91139692, v4.3.0.
Before, rea() deleted the mailbox regardless of errors. Acceptable
only when the user gets a chance to avoid that after the problem is
reported. Not the case for "read y".
Not an issue for announcements, but treat them the same for
simplicity.
Fooling around with the file size is silly. It works only because
read has flag C_MOD set, so they can only arrive while we're sitting
at the delete confirmation prompt, not during reading.
Simply try to read more telegrams instead.
Telegram deletion deletes the mailbox. If more telegrams arrive while
we wait for the player to confirm deletion, the mailbox again contains
unread telegrams, so we can't just delete it. Instead, rea() loops to
read the new telegrams.
Announcements worked the same until Empire 3 put them in a single file
shared by all. Since then, deleting announcements merely updates
nat_annotim, and there's no need to read new announcements after
getting the player's confirmation. So don't.
Here's how telegram notification works with NF_INFORM off: typed_wu()
increments the telegram recipient's nat_tgms. status(), running right
before command prompts, notifies the player when nat_tgms > 0, and
resets it. Thus, we tell the player how many telegrams arrived since
the previous command prompt.
However, what we really want is something else, namely the number of
"new telegrams waiting". That's what the notification message says,
after all. Telegrams already printed by read shouldn't count, even
when they arrived since the previous command prompt.
Make them not count by clearing pending telegrams on read regardless
of toggle inform.
Same for announcements.
Reset number of pending telegrams before delete prompt instead of
after.
Before, the client claimed pending telegrams at that prompt, because
it wasn't C_INFORMed of the read, yet. Worse, if more telegrams
arrived while sitting at the prompt, the reset clobbered their number
and sent a bogus clear C_INFORM message, effectively hiding the new
arrivals from the player.
Adjacent announcements are squashed together when the sender is the
same and the timestamp is "close enough". Except typed_wu()
increments natstr member nat_ann regardless. Fix that to work exactly
like nat_tgms.
Adjacent telegrams are squashed together if type and sender are the
same, and the timestamp is "close enough". This is done in two
places: rea() and typed_wu(). They're inconsistent: typed_wu()
ignores the timestamp for production reports since Empire 2, but rea()
doesn't.
Record typed_wu()'s decision in new telstr member tel_cont. Use it in
rea().
typed_wu() counts telegrams to update nat_tgms and, since Empire 2,
send C_INFORM messages. Adjacent telegrams are squashed together if
type and sender are the same, and the timestamp is within TEL_SECONDS.
typed_wu() increments nat_tgms when it sends a telegram that read
doesn't squash into the previous one.
Since Empire 2, it also sends a C_INFORM message then. Inexplicably,
it fails to use the same condition: it tests just new_tele, not
new_tele || np->nat_tgms == 0. C_INFORM messages got missed, until
4.0.18 made rea() call clear_telegram_is_new(). Convoluted.
Send C_INFORM exactly when incrementing nat_tgms, and back out
4.0.18's fix.
The call was added in 4.2.5 "so that the next telegram is flagged as
new and not part of the update". Since the update sends only
TEL_UPDATE telegrams (the previous commit restored that property), and
nothing else does, the next telegram is flagged as new automatically,
except when it's from the next update. Document that, and move the
call to a more natural place.
During the update, wu() sends TEL_UPDATE telegrams ("Production
Report") instead of TEL_BULLETIN telegrams, but typed_wu() has no such
logic. It's used by tele(), which doesn't run during the update, and
mpr(), which may, e.g. called from ship or mission code used by
autonav or sail. This inserts bulletins in the middle of the
production report, splitting it apart.
Happens since mpr() was added in Empire 2. Before, only tele() used
typed_wu() directly, and everything else wu().
Change mpr() to use wu().
Leave nat_ann, nat_tgm alone and return -1 on all errors. Before,
only failed open was handled that way. Failed write and close were
logged and ignored. While there, improve the log messages a bit.
Note: the return value fix has little effect. It makes tele() log the
failure, which is redundant. Everything else goes through wu() and
ignores the value.
Deleting a country in state STAT_SANCT, STAT_ACTIVE or STAT_GOD is
risky, because any references to this country become dangling, which
makes ef_verify() unhappy. For a reason: we may well have code that
isn't prepared for dangling references, and breaks.
Replacing a country that is being used is risky, because it can get us
into weird states. For instance, replacing a player by a visitor can
result in a visitor that owns stuff.
The add command sets nation flags NF_FLASH, NF_BEEP, NF_COASTWATCH,
NF_SONAR, and since 4.2.6 NF_TECHLISTS. POGO is created by the files
utility, which sets only NF_FLASH (since 4.2.2). Change files to
match add.
Just create sanctuaries, put country into STAT_SANCT, grant BTUs and
money, set origin and initial realms.
This reverts commit e1a68c72 (v4.3.12) as far as newcap is concerned.
Except we still set nat_access, because that needs to be set along
with nat_btu.
Additionally, leave levels and telegrams alone.
Should have no effect in practice, because newcap works only in
STAT_NEW, and we get there with the add command, which wipes the
country.
Before, add reset the country only when adding a player or a visitor.
When adding a deity or deleting a country, it set just nat_cnam,
nat_pnam and nat_state. Has always been that way.
Because of that, a newly minted deity country could inherit all kinds
of crap from a previous user of its country number: origin, realms,
relations, telegrams, ... Harmless if the country number has never
been used before, which is how add is generally used.
When adding a deity country, initial levels (start_education, ...) now
apply, relations start NEUTRAL instead of AT_WAR, and the usual
initial nation flags are set.
Reset on delete as well, just to get rid of the special case.
Argument "active" is obscure. It creates a country in STAT_ACTIVE
that doesn't have a capital, and has its origin at the true origin.
If you really want such a country, create it in STAT_NEW normally,
then use edit to go to STAT_ACTIVE.
0 <= fd < FD_SETSIZE must hold, or else undefined behavior in FD_SET()
and buffer overrun in LwpFdwait[fd]. Check of upper bound off by one,
check of lower bound missing.
