Holsham Traders Server

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.5.2

Notes:
This release breaks proper support for htsclient.ncurses 0.4.1.

Changes:
 -moved all #includes that weren't necessary in the *.h into the respective *.c
  this also solved some mysterious prototype errors.
 -improved the Makefile;
 -made server keep on running on errors instead of exit()ing in various places
 -htsserver can now behave like a real daemon: it can detach from the
  controlling terminal and run in the background if you use the commandline
  option --daemonize or set the compiletime option RUN_AS_DAEMON to 'YES'
  in config.h.
  If htsserver runs as daemon, you can also specify which device shall be
  used for error messages, using --stderr-device or the compiletime option
  DAEMON_STDERR_DEVICE in config.h. Reasonable values are /dev/console or
  /dev/null for example.
 -added function lerror() for use instead of perror(). It logs an error
  message in the form of '<function>: <errormessage>(<errno>)' 
 -runtime errors that do not affect the functionality of htsserver are
  reported via the standard logging facility.
 -made chat() accept printf()-style messages
 -improved signal-handling; controlled shutdown on SIGTERM, SIGINT and SIGQUIT,
  and re-read config-file(which is not yet implemented) on SIGHUP. Moved all
  signal-related code to misc.[ch] 
 -made net_buffer[] private to handle_input_from_client()
 -client_streams[] is history. 
 -moved connection-related code to conn.[ch]
 -removed finduser_by_fd() since this info can be found in 'connection'.
 -changed finduser() to return a pointer to player.
 -added support for quoting command-arguments, i.e. arguments can now contain
  spaces, if the whole argument is quoted.
 -several changes in player-struct 
 -everyone connected to the game is referenced through a pointer to his entry
  in conns[] now.
 -improved first_free_player_slot()
 -new commands: version, protocol, name, nop, logout
 -updated htsprotocol to 0.3.2 
 -documentation updates: man-page, README.programmers, PROTOCOL, FEATURES,
  BUGS, FAQ
 -introduced command handlers and corresponding handler table.
 -removed some compiler warnings about implicit declarations by specifying a
  load of __USE_* CPP defines in CFLAGS in the Makefile
 -removed messages.[ch]
 -server now denies login attempts for players who are already logged in from
  another connection.
 -added README.files which explains what files htsserver uses and what they
  contain
 -user and player are the same thing now; the username cannot be changed,
  because it is used to uniquely identify a user.
 -all networking commands are case-insensitive now
 -some functions are more secure now(i.e they use strncasecmp instead of
  strcasecmp etc.)
 -the list of users who are logged in(returned by 'who') is now comma-separated.
  this means usernames may not contain commas, but they may contain spaces.
 -misc. code-cleanups, fixed several typos in the documentation
 -many improvements of the connection-related code
 -added a function to broadcast a message to all clients
 -the bind() error message described in the FAQ will now be prevented
 -header dependencies in the Makefile are up-to-date again.