Re: couldn't kill games-server.py

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Callum McKenzie wrote:

> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:23:07 +1200
> From: Callum McKenzie <callum physics otago ac nz>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> Cc: games-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: couldn't kill games-server.py
>
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 18:18 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > I was experimenting and I ran games-server.py without knowing what it was
> > exactly.  (I've since foudn it is part of gnome-games and is a helper for
> > running network games.)
> >
> > I was surprised that Ctrl+C and Ctrl+D both failed to force quit the
> > program (instead a logged in to another terminal and used top to kill it).
> >
> > Is that behaviour to be expected or is it likely to be some other oddity
> > in my setup?

> The "expected" behaviour is that you never run it manually :).

That would explain why I didn't seem any handler for command line
arguements or usage information.

> Looking at the code nothing appears to be explicitly ignoring the break
> signal, it looks like a side-effect of other behaviour.
>
> File a bug. It's low priority, but it should be looked at (you can make
> it high priority if you want, but it means I will drop one of your other
> bugs to work on it).

I'll definately file it low priority.  Thanks.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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