Briggs Softworks

Upgrade page:

https://www.briggsoft.com/patches.htm

*** Remember to shut down the server completely and close the service manager before running the patch ***

*** Reminder: previous version owners v1 to v6 can still upgrade to v7 at a 50% discount. Contact me via email for details ***

Changes:

Fixed a tournament thread deadlock bug triggered by admin console login. Previously if you happened to log into the admin console while a player was knocked out of a tournament in a money position, there could be two threads running code in each other's locked critical section, locking up the site without generating any errors. The odds of this happening were low unless the site was under a heavy thread load with lots of active tournament tables.

Fixed admin rights bug related to tournament creator field. Previously it was using the field right from ring games instead of tournaments.

Awesome job finding and fixing that tournament + admin console crash!

strobe878 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 1:19 am Awesome job finding and fixing that tournament + admin console crash!

Big thanks to one of my European customers who gave me access to his site to witness the crashes first hand. I then duplicated his setup on my own machine and could eventually make it crash at will. Then it was just a matter of time to hunt down the exact bug location by injecting progress markers in the code.