rofl0r

btw, i would suggest doing the same with pcre. i already tried and it works with well with distro-shipped latest libgc and libpcre. that's much less hassle than having to...

the GC should just be removed from the source tree and the system-package-manager provided version used instead. boehm GC is a highly non-portable PoS (it invokes UB, installs signal handlers...

thanks for your report. have you tried running the client on a linux machine already? i wonder whether this is a bug in the windows version of python. trying python3...

> @rofl0r Same issue for me. I am running both client and server on linux. sigh. maybe using python for this project was a bad choice. anyway, maybe you can...

the way the program currently works is that 0) establishing control channel connection 1) it establishes an idle data connection to the server 2) waits for a request 3) as...

that's possible. maybe the "prepare a connection in advance" thing wasn't so smart after all. do you feel capable of changing the code so the data connection is only done...

> Maybe this could be somewhere in docs / readme for this project. your solution is not universal - it depends on systemd, which i despise. i'd rather find out...

> Maybe some heartbeat data flow is needed to keep connection alive. this could only mitigate the problem to some degree. the fundamental issue here is that an existing connection...

i didnt know it but otoh i deliberately picked the latest version from laguna because usually gamers have the habit to turn good code into bad code you are of...

note to self: these commits may be legit https://code.google.com/p/gnuboy/source/detail?r=180 https://code.google.com/p/gnuboy/source/detail?r=178 183 184 (184 was reverted in 197 so it seems partially buggy)