Ok... I have to say this is something I have never tried. A little help or
direction??
- Valnir
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Valnir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:53 AM
Subject: RE: Pausing a Loop.
It was perfectly clear. There is no function to tell the mud to "go
about your business".
You need to either thread the entire function, or call fork() and run
this as a child process.
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Valnir
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Pausing a Loop.
Maybe it would be clearer if I posted the function, so here it is.
void do_alts( CHAR_DATA *ch, char *argument ) {
DIR *player_dir;
struct dirent *players;
CHAR_DATA *victim, *lch;
char buf[MSL];
char output[MSL] = { '\0' };
int count = 0;
if ( ( victim = get_char_online(argument) ) == NULL )
{
if ( ( victim = get_char_offline(argument) ) == NULL )
{
send_to_char("The character was not found to
compare against.\n\r", ch);
return;
}
}
send_to_char( "^fPlease wait while we scan for alts. "
"This process can take a minute...^0\n\r\n\r", ch );
send_to_char( "Searching pfiles", ch );
if ( ( player_dir = opendir(PLAYER_DIR) ) != NULL )
{
while ( ( players = readdir(player_dir) ) != NULL )
{
send_to_char( ".", ch );
if ( !str_cmp( players->d_name, "." )
|| !str_cmp( players->d_name, ".." ) )
continue;
if ( !str_cmp( players->d_name, victim->name ) )
continue;
if ( ( lch = get_char_online(players->d_name) ) == NULL )
lch = get_char_offline(players->d_name);
if ( !str_cmp( victim->pcdata->host, lch->pcdata->host ) )
{
if ( !IS_SET( lch->pen, PEN_SNOOP_PROOF )
&& !IS_IMMORTAL(lch) )
{
sprintf( buf, "^$%2d^!) ^$%s^0\n\r", ++count,
lch->name );
strcat( output, buf );
}
}
unload_char(lch);
}
send_to_char( "\n\r\n\r", ch );
if ( count > 0 )
{
sprintf( buf, "Below is a list of all characters
connecting"
" from host:\n\r\t%s\n\r\n\r", victim->pcdata->host );
send_to_char( buf, ch );
send_to_char( output, ch );
}
else
send_to_char( "No matches found.\n\r", ch );
}
else
bug( "Could not open PLAYER_DIR!", 0 );
closedir(player_dir);
unload_char(victim);
return;
}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Valnir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:44 AM
Subject: RE: Pausing a Loop.
Your best bet would be to run that in a separate thread.
(or fork(), if you don't want to mess with threading)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Valnir
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:41 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Pausing a Loop.
>
> Ok, I created a nice little function so that my immortals can
> find the alts of the any character on the game by comparing
> against the host listed in the pfiles. The problem is that
> since it loads and unloads every pfile, it takes a minute to
> run, and since it does that, it literally pauses the game
> while it's running. What command can I add into the loop to
> tell it to pick up other process requests, etc? I'm sure
> there is one, and I just don't know what it is.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> - Valnir
>
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