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My program keeps crashing

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Join Date: May 2008
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Re: My program keeps crashing

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May 10th, 2008
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Originally Posted by Duoas View Post
Can you tell us the type of pipe and the operational modes of each end?

I suspect that you have got an unstable combination and/or buffer lag.


I don't know much about the pipe since it's set up by the other program. All I do on my side is to get an output handle and create a new thread:

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procedure TArena.openConnection; 
begin
   gHandleout:=getstdhandle(std_output_handle);
   createthread(nil,0,@TArena.read_winboard,nil,0,Threadid);
end;

This is what the creator of winboard (here referred to as xboard) says:

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An xboard chess engine runs as a separate process from xboard itself, connected to xboard through a pair of anonymous pipes. The engine does not have to do anything special to set up these pipes. xboard sets up the pipes itself and starts the engine with one pipe as its standard input and the other as its standard output. The engine then reads commands from its standard input and writes responses to its standard output.
(link)

My problem pertains to Arena though, which is similar to Winboard but may be wired differently in regard to the pipes. Can't find any info specifically for Arena. I could ask, but I have a feeling that that knowledge shouldn't be necessary.

I got the connection code from this page. He claims the code is working and that he uses it himself.
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