Computer Chess Club Archives

Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: How many chess engines use Linux as their primary OS?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 09:36:46 06/24/03

On June 24, 2003 at 12:12:52, Andrew Williams wrote:

>Funny you should ask, Omid. PostModernist is currently a Linux-only engine. That
>situation would change any minute, if I could just work out one small problem
>with PeekNamedPipe(..) on Windows. At the moment it can play under WinBoard if I
>make frequent use of <Move Now>. It either seems to spend all its time thinking
>that there is input available, or it ignores all input altogether...

Maybe you could expand on the problem you're having with PeekNamedPipe? Have you
tried the other alternatives to PeekNamedPipe? Such as
GetNumberOfConsoleInputEvents, WaitForSingleObject, cin.rdbuf()->in_avail()? Or
how about starting a seperate thread for input, or for your search?

Re: How many chess engines use Linux as their primary OS? Andrew Williams 10:01:07 06/24/03
- Re: How many chess engines use Linux as their primary OS? Russell Reagan 10:31:57 06/24/03
  - Re: How many chess engines use Linux as their primary OS? Andrew Williams 11:25:28 06/24/03
    - Re: How many chess engines use Linux as their primary OS? Slater Wold 11:44:10 06/24/03
      - Re: How many chess engines use Linux as their primary OS? Andrew Williams 12:45:45 06/24/03
        
        Re: How many chess engines use Linux as their primary OS? Russell Reagan 13:08:16 06/24/03
    - Re: How many chess engines use Linux as their primary OS? Dave Gomboc 11:42:40 06/24/03
      - Re: How many chess engines use Linux as their primary OS? Andrew Williams 12:46:55 06/24/03
        
        Errr.. I mean WBEC-Ridderderk, of course.... NT Andrew Williams 12:48:04 06/24/03
        
        Re: Errr.. I mean WBEC-Ridderderk, of course.... Günther Simon 14:55:45 06/24/03
        
        Re: Errr.. I mean WBEC-Ridderderk, of course.... Andrew Williams 22:08:10 06/24/03
        
        Günther, did I misread the date? Andrew Williams 22:21:10 06/24/03
        
        Re: Günther, did I misread the date? Günther Simon 01:06:25 06/25/03
        
        Re: Günther, did I misread the date? Andrew Williams 01:22:22 06/25/03
        
        Re: Günther, did I misread the date? Günther Simon 02:05:16 06/25/03
        
        Re: Errr.. I mean WBEC-Ridderderk, of course.... Great Andrew!! (NT) Leo Dijksman 13:43:47 06/24/03

This page took 0.01 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.