Re: [Playerstage-developers] Pioneer Bumper Sensor

[Geoffrey B. <gb...@ki...>]

As I understand it, it's not the stage plugin crashing, but the client 
program, via the libplayerc proxy. Even using stage, there will still be 
a race condition to see if stage can send its first chunk of data across 
the loopback transport before the client tries to read it.

Geoff

Richard Vaughan wrote:
> Geoff is correct, of course, but this shouldn't really be happening in
> Stage. In the simulator, it should be hard to crash your controller. I
> know this doesn't model the real robots very well, but it's a lot more
> friendly for beginners.
> 
> The stage plugin should provide some null data and maybe a loud
> console warning if the data is accessed before being properly
> generated. But crashing mysteriously is not cool.