[not a bug] r3167: Savegames are not written if previous write is in progress

[tomreyn]

This is a minor issue, but I'll report it anyways... If you press the button to save a game multiple times in quick succession then, while the game reports to have created a savegame everytimes you pressed the button, only the first game is actually saved. This seems to be because creating savegame files is a sequential process and there is no queueing.

Possible fixes (I assume):

• Fail (silently or, better, with a message) to create another savegame if creating a savegame is already in progress
• Make game saving threaded

[Bloodwurm]

The game is still running WHILE it's saving?

It's not for nothing that usually saving a game is a blocking process.

[tomreyn]

Actually, looking into this again, it looks more the the savegames are written every time you press the key, but they can end up being written to the same file (same filename) if you saved multiple games per second. I guess this makes this a non-issue. And yes, saving the game does seem to be a blocking process, it's just so quick you hardly realize it.

[softcoder]

Mainly the issue is that the filename is tied to the current second, so saving multiple times per second will over-write.