Re: [Playerstage-users] AMCL driver's abilities

[Brian G. <ge...@ai...>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Mark K. Kim wrote:

> While working, I found an odd behavior with Player.  For some reason,
> running the passthrough player in the background from a script prevents
> player from working.  For example, I wrote a BASH script called
> "start.script" (simplified version):
>
>   stage myworld.world &
>   sleep 3
>   player -p 7000 mcl.cfg &     # for the passthrough driver
>   sleep 3
>   client -p 7000
>
> And for some reason, player complains about a broken pipe and quits right
> after execution.  I tried redirection to keep it happy without success.
> Stage and client runs fine in the background.  Oh well, I'm running it in
> a separate window from the script (`xterm -e ...`).  Thought others might
> wanna know!

I'm unable to replicate that behavior with the code in CVS.  Which is
to say, I can run player in the background without trouble.  Maybe we
fixed this problem at some point...

         brian.

-- 
Brian P. Gerkey                    ge...@ai...
Stanford AI Lab                    http://ai.stanford.edu/~gerkey