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Subject: Re: Difference between Winborad and UCI protocol

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:38:08 04/24/02

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On April 23, 2002 at 15:24:49, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>On April 23, 2002 at 12:12:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 23, 2002 at 04:17:39, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>On April 23, 2002 at 04:10:09, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 23, 2002 at 03:39:01, Martin Bauer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>can someone help mem with these two questions:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Is winboard comunication done by stdin/out with plain text commands,
>>>>> as in UCI?
>>>>
>>>>I don't know about UCI, but winboard/xboard communication works with stdin/out
>>>>and plain text commands.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> - Must in winboard the engine be able to listen stdin even while thinking?
>>>>
>>>>Well, if you want to react to commands like "force move" or "new game" while
>>>>you're thinking you better listen. :) Of course you don't have to..
>>>>
>>>>My engine has its own thread for listening. It's my feeling that a good design
>>>>here is easier when using threads. YMMV.
>>>>
>>>>HTH
>>>>
>>>>Sargon
>>>
>>>Is there a "quick" tutorial on how to use threads?
>>>A small piece of code would be real nice :)
>>>
>>>I did it once with pthreads in linux, but did not do anything fancy, it was all
>>>on local variables that didn't need any volatile stuff.
>>>
>>>-S.
>>
>>
>>Do a google search on "Posix Threads".  You should find a couple of online
>>tutorials.  If you download the pthreads package for linux (this is now a
>>standard part of linux but the package is still lying around) you will get
>>a few sample programs, plus a couple of tutorials you can read.  I use these
>>in the parallel programming course I teach, they are good enough for that...
>
>Are you using POSIX for Windows as well? Macros or what?
>Peter


No.  I have macros that translate pthread_create() and the like to windows
API...



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