After playing around somemore, I have a clue for you. Since you know the inard workings of all those variables, the answer may be apparent to you. Still kind of obscure for me.

I did the testing as described above, but started the server with the -cev flags. What I notice centers around the portion of writer code which prints out the new Client indexes: 

 
Writer MryZzHCZj8
        dies
        new Client indexes:3BMOliyMCT:0;3rNBRdpLo5:0;

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What seems to be happening, is after I start the 3 clients, in order 1-2-3, if I kill client 1 first, then the 2 and 3, the new Client indexes gets reduced properly, with no clients in the index when all clients are dead. The socklist and ps list looks good

But if I kill client 2 or 3 first, that new Client index line dosn't even get printed, and when second client is killed, the new Client index gets printed, but with the extra client still in there. So then there is one client left in the index, with all clients killed.

I hope you know where this is being caused?

In reply to Re: ChatServer by zentara
in thread ChatServer by Anonymous Monk

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