Re: Rent problem that's keeping me up at night

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 12/20/01 

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Jamie Nay wrote:

>Basically, equipment is not being saved when a person is renting. That is,
>if I went to the hotel and rented, it would drop my equipment on the ground
>and thus I'd re-enter the game with nothing on me. However, the thing that
>baffles me is the syslog. If I were to rent and come back on right away,
>here's what the log would look like:
>
>Dec 20 15:28:22 :: Rift has rented (4100/day, 600000 tot.)
>Dec 20 15:28:27 :: Rift entering game with no equipment.

Try this (untested), then see what the error is:

--- objsave.c   Thu Jun 28 11:03:53 2001
+++ /tmp/objsave.c      Thu Dec 20 20:01:24 2001
@@ -754,8 +754,10 @@ void Crash_crashsave(struct char_data *c

   if (!get_filename(GET_NAME(ch), buf, CRASH_FILE))
     return;
-  if (!(fp = fopen(buf, "wb")))
+  if (!(fp = fopen(buf, "wb"))) {
+    perror(buf);
     return;
+  }

   rent.rentcode = RENT_CRASH;
   rent.time = time(0);
@@ -797,8 +799,10 @@ void Crash_idlesave(struct char_data *ch

   if (!get_filename(GET_NAME(ch), buf, CRASH_FILE))
     return;
-  if (!(fp = fopen(buf, "wb")))
+  if (!(fp = fopen(buf, "wb"))) {
+    perror(buf);
     return;
+  }

   Crash_extract_norent_eq(ch);
   Crash_extract_norents(ch->carrying);
@@ -876,8 +880,10 @@ void Crash_rentsave(struct char_data *ch

   if (!get_filename(GET_NAME(ch), buf, CRASH_FILE))
     return;
-  if (!(fp = fopen(buf, "wb")))
+  if (!(fp = fopen(buf, "wb"))) {
+    perror(buf);
     return;
+  }

   Crash_extract_norent_eq(ch);
   Crash_extract_norents(ch->carrying);
@@ -922,8 +928,10 @@ void Crash_cryosave(struct char_data *ch

   if (!get_filename(GET_NAME(ch), buf, CRASH_FILE))
     return;
-  if (!(fp = fopen(buf, "wb")))
+  if (!(fp = fopen(buf, "wb"))) {
+    perror(buf);
     return;
+  }

   Crash_extract_norent_eq(ch);
   Crash_extract_norents(ch->carrying);

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