[Pogamut-list] Proper Server Termination

[jacob.schrum]

Proper Server Termination

Author: jacob.schrum

When doing evolution with Pogamut, if I launch a server and some bug causes it to crash, I don't want to count that evaluation. My current code launches a server, and has the bot being evaluated keep track of how long it has been evaluated for. When it has been evaluated for long enough, it sets a flag to indicate that evaluation was successful, and then it kills itself and the server.

This seems to work well enough, except that killing bots and servers is always a messy process. I'm hoping to do things in a cleaner way. I think that if instead of having the bots track evaluation time, I were to simply specify a time limit for the deathmatch, then the server might terminate more cleanly.

My only concern is that I won't be able to tell if evaluation was successful. If the server crashes early, or if any of the bots crash during evaluation, then I don't want to count that evaluation. What is the best way to know that a deathmatch server ran all the way up to the time limit and then terminated with all bots still connected?

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