Re: [CODE]: Strange error, what does it mean?

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 11/04/98


On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Christoffer Lundberg wrote:

>This is logged when someone logs off our MUD.
>
>Wed Nov  4 23:31:09 :: Xor has quit the game.
>Wed Nov  4 23:31:18 :: Losing player: Xor.
>Select poll: Bad file descriptor
>Wed Nov  4 23:31:18 :: Closing all sockets.

Sounds like your player-descriptor is hanging around in memory longer than
it should. Then it'll be counted in the file-descriptors-to-check in the
select()  of game_loop() but it is found to be an invalid file number.

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