RET_SYS was used for commands failing due to internal or environmental
errors, but not really systematically. The difference to RET_FAIL is
how dispatch() treats them: RET_SYS got logged, and cost no BTUs.
More specific logging is possible at the point of failure than in
dispatch(). Make sure that's done for all failures that used to
return RET_SYS.
The change in BTU charging affects commands consider, offer, repay,
trade failing due to internal errors. It also affects deity commands
reload and turn (irrelevant because deities get unlimited BTUs), and
commands apropos, info and motd (irrelevant because they cost no
BTUs).
player->ncomstat for command permissions. Side effect: status() no
longer notifies deities when they go broke or become solvent.
(dispatch): Don't distinguish between transiently and permanently
unavailable commands. Didn't really work anyway.
(player): Remove unused member ncomstat.
sure the command is reliably aborted on update and shutdown. Before,
redirection output could block while player->command was still null,
letting players delay the update or shutdown indefinitely.
wanted. Unfair to writers, but possible. This lets commands run with
!player->aborted, which can then block on input and thus let players
delay the update or shutdown indefinitely. Avoid by spinning until
the update is done.
resolving #1458175 and #1504036):
(update_lock): New.
(update_shed): Initialize it.
(update_wait, dispatch): Take exclusive update_lock around the update,
shared update_lock around commands. This makes the update block until
all aborted commands terminated and gave up their lock. Remove the
cheesy and unsafe two second wait for commands to finish. It also
makes player threads block before executing commands while the update
is pending, removing the need to fail commands then. So don't.
other. Ensure headers in include/ can be included in any order
(except for econfig-spec.h, which is special). New header types.h to
help avoid inclusion cycles. Sort include directives. Remove some
superflous includes.
instead of declaring them all over the place. This uncovered type
errors:
(s_p_etu, adj_update): Defined long, sometimes declared int. Kills
big endian machines where sizeof(long) != sizeof(int). Change to
int.
(set_option, delete_option, optstrset, intset, floatset, doubleset,
longset, optionset, optiondel, worldxset): Change linkage to static.
