arcattackandClaude Opus 5
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Operator report: "X-closing the game leaves the terminal open and leaves orphaned processes." Investigated on the rig against 4.11.600. The terminal half is real and is THIS: :btwait polled `tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq btl4.exe"`, which is machine-wide, so a bat that launched nothing at all keeps spinning while an unrelated instance lives -- proved with btwait_probe.ps1. A second client, the operator's own pod, or an orphan from a crash therefore hangs every join window, which reads as "the game never exited" and invites people to start killing processes. All four launchers carried the identical block. Fix: snapshot the btl4 PIDs alive BEFORE the launch; wait only on PIDs absent from that snapshot. The `if /I "%%P"=="btl4.exe"` guard is deliberately kept -- tokens=2 alone parses tasklist's "INFO: No tasks are running" line as a PID and spins forever with nothing running, which would be worse than the bug. Verified with the text lifted verbatim from the shipped play_solo.bat: nothing running -> signs off (the regression guard); someone else's instance -> signs off; our own generation -> keeps waiting; decoy gone -> signs off. The patched bat still launches (pid + launch_report.txt). NOT verified: the full handoff E2E, because the bat blocks on the FE menu waiting for a human. The orphan half did NOT reproduce on 600: closing the MAIN window exits cleanly in ~1s during solo model-load, in the relay join wait, and after a real console launch, with the relay logging the seat freed. The orphans the playtesters saw match 584 and earlier, where every close relaunched. Full write-up, including the aux windows that hide instead of closing and the WM_QUIT that BTLoadPump swallows, in phases/phase-12-orphan-processes.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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4.1 KiB
Batchfile
91 lines
4.1 KiB
Batchfile
@echo off
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rem BT411 -- STEAM play (EXPERIMENTAL, dev testers). Launches the glass
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rem front-end menu: HOST a Steam lobby or JOIN one from the menu -- there
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rem is no address to configure; sessions form through the Steam lobby.
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rem Requires: the Steam client RUNNING and logged in, and the steam build
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rem extracted next to content\.
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cd /d %~dp0
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if not exist "build\Release\btl4.exe" goto badpath
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if not exist "content\BTL4.RES" goto badpath
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set BT_PLATFORM=glass
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set BT_STEAM_NET=1
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rem KEEP the previous run's log (a crash report died 2026-07-26 because a
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rem re-run deleted the only evidence). Rotate, never delete.
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if exist content\steam.old.log del content\steam.old.log
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if exist content\steam.log ren content\steam.log steam.old.log
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set BT_LOG=steam.log
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set BT_LOG_APPEND=1
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rem Cockpit view + MFD gauges -- the same client flags the join bats set
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rem (field report: players booted 3rd-person without them). Inherited by
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rem the menu's mission relaunch.
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set BT_START_INSIDE=1
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set BT_DEV_GAUGES=1
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rem full menu here (all modes + steam buttons); clear the solo trim in
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rem case this shell ran play_solo.bat first
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set BT_FE_SOLO=
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cd content
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rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
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rem OUR GENERATION ONLY (2026-07-27). The wait loop below used to hold
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rem this window open for ANY btl4.exe on the machine -- a second client,
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rem the operator's own pod, or an orphan left by a crash. The window
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rem then never printed the sign-off and looked hung: the reported "it
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rem leaves the terminal open". Snapshot the PIDs alive BEFORE we launch;
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rem those belong to somebody else and must not hold us here.
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rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
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setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
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set "BT_PRE=,"
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for /f "tokens=1,2" %%P in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\tasklist.exe /FI "IMAGENAME eq btl4.exe" /NH 2^>nul') do (
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if /I "%%P"=="btl4.exe" set "BT_PRE=!BT_PRE!%%Q,"
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)
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..\build\Release\btl4.exe
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rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
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rem HANDOFF WAIT (2026-07-25). The front end does NOT stay resident: it
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rem CreateProcess()es the mission generation and ExitProcess(0)s itself
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rem (btl4console.cpp). So OUR child exiting means "the menu handed off",
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rem NOT "the game closed" -- without this wait the window announced "The
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rem game has exited" while the game was still loading, which reads as a
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rem crash to a playtester. Wait for the handed-off generation(s) to go.
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rem
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rem NO EXTERNAL TOOLS: `find`, `findstr` and `timeout` are all shadowed by
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rem Git-Bash / MSYS / GnuWin32 builds of the same names when those are on
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rem PATH (a dev box, or a player who installed git). The MSYS `find` is
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rem the Unix one and dies with "find: '/I': No such file or directory",
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rem and GNU `timeout` takes different arguments. So: parse tasklist with
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rem a pure-cmd for/f, and call both helpers by ABSOLUTE System32 path.
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rem A genuinely dead exe leaves no process and falls straight through, so
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rem the #41 launch forensics above still work. If tasklist is missing
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rem entirely the loop degrades to reporting immediately -- the old
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rem behaviour, never a hang.
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rem ------------------------------------------------------------------
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:btwait
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set "BT_STILL_RUNNING="
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for /f "tokens=1,2" %%P in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\tasklist.exe /FI "IMAGENAME eq btl4.exe" /NH 2^>nul') do (
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if /I "%%P"=="btl4.exe" (
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rem a PID that was NOT in the pre-launch snapshot is ours
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set "BT_STRIP=!BT_PRE:,%%Q,=!"
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if "!BT_STRIP!"=="!BT_PRE!" set "BT_STILL_RUNNING=1"
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)
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)
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if defined BT_STILL_RUNNING (
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%SystemRoot%\System32\timeout.exe /t 2 /nobreak >nul 2>nul
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goto btwait
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)
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echo.
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echo The game has exited. If it closed unexpectedly, send the operator
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echo content\steam.log. Steam not running = the menu still works but
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echo lobbies will not appear.
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pause
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exit /b
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:badpath
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echo.
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echo ==================================================
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echo ERROR: this file is not in the right place, or
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echo the zip was not fully extracted.
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echo.
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echo It must sit in the EXTRACTED game folder, next to
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echo the 'content' and 'build' folders.
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echo ==================================================
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echo.
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pause
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