numbers out.
This changes the "tournament codes"; that is, the same code will give
you a different game now from what it used to. (This is because the
codes are basically random seeds.) I really really doubt anyone cares
about this, especially since the tournament feature appears to be
undocumented.
Default to "fast mode" as ~nobody has a 300 baud terminal any more.
("Fast mode" apparently controls whether short-range scans are printed
by default at certain times.)
Games which run setgid from dm, but don't need to, should drop their
privileges at startup.
Games which have a scorefile should open it at startup, then drop all
privileges leaving just the open writable file descriptor. If the
game can invoke subprocesses, this should be made close-on-exec.
Games with scorefiles should make sure they do not get a file
descriptor < 3. (Otherwise, they could get confused and corrupt the
scorefile when using stdin, stdout or stderr.)
Some old setuid revokes from the days of setuid games change into gid
revokes.
dholland