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   :umu: :umu: (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 23:14:13 JST :umu: :umu:
   ```
   fcntl(0, F_SETFL, fcntl (0, F_GETFL, 0) | FNDELAY);
   
   nostdout = Cvar_Get("nostdout", "0", 0);
   if (!nostdout->value) {
   fcntl(0, F_SETFL, fcntl (0, F_GETFL, 0) | FNDELAY);
   }
   ```
   
   I'm thinking about this piece of code present in Quake 2 but not in Quake III too much.
   
   What did they wanted to say...
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     TTimo (ttimo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 23:14:11 JST TTimo

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     @a1ba so someone goofed of course, but maybe the original version was meant to either close stdout (redirect to /dev/null), or put stdin into non blocking to essentially make a console out of your terminal.

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     TTimo (ttimo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 23:14:11 JST TTimo

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     @a1ba the quake 3 code had a lot of goofy stuff and sharp edges, when id passed it over to me I spent the first few months cleaning up compiler warnings.

     It was a good way to familiarize with it, but I don't remember running into this.

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     TTimo (ttimo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 23:14:12 JST TTimo

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     @a1ba most interesting! And I assume there is no good version of this in quake 1 either? But it can be found in common code?

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     Daniel Gibson (doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 07:50:07 JST Daniel Gibson

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     • TTimo

     @TTimo @a1ba
     > I spent the first few months cleaning up compiler warnings

     the universal experience of throwing code written in Visual Studio at a real compiler :-D

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