Three behaviors from 5.4.4 that the port dropped silently. Each is a few
lines; grouped because they are all "restore something C did".
1. sticks.c 237: the "otherwise" arm closing do_zap's switch printed
"what a bizarre schtick!", and doZap had turned it into doing nothing.
The arm is under #ifdef MASTER, not under a runtime wizard test, so in
the MASTER build this port is it printed for every player and must not
be gated on g.Wizard. WS_NOP is a case of that switch in its own right
("when WS_NOP: break;"), so "no handler ran" cannot be the trigger:
the wand of nothing does nothing quietly. C's switch covers all 14 WS_
values, so its otherwise is reachable only for an o_which outside the
table, which is what Object.hasValidWhich already screens for. All
three arms fall through to obj.Charges--, as C's do.
2. command.c 288-291: CTRL('R') is "after = FALSE; clearok(curscr, TRUE);
wrefresh(curscr);" — a forced full repaint. The port called
g.refresh(), the ordinary diffing blit, which cannot fix the only
situation the command exists for: a screen corrupted by another
program's output leaves the game's record of it still correct, so the
diff sends nothing. New Terminal.Repaint (tcell Screen.Sync, which
discards tcell's record of the terminal rather than diffing against
it), Screen.Repaint and g.repaint(), implemented in term.Tcell and in
both headless test terminals. Named for the curses operation: the
interface is the game's abstraction, not tcell's. It repaints what was
last rendered — C repainted curscr, not stdscr — so it takes no
window.
3. main.c 107-113: the startup greeting existed nowhere in the tree. New
game.Greeting, printed on stdout by cmd/rogue/main.go before
term.New(), the port's initscr(). Only the wizard wording is #ifdef
MASTER; the other is unconditional. The %d is dnum, which main.c has
just assigned to seed, so it is Params.Seed. Neither wording ends in a
newline. Two placement details the tests pin: the printf sits after
parse_opts, so a ROGUEOPTS name= is what the player is greeted by; and
it sits after the -s/-d handling and after restore(), which never
returns, so a resumed game does not announce that a dungeon is being
dug (digsNewDungeon).
Greeting parses ROGUEOPTS into a throwaway game built the way New builds
the real one, tables and home directory included: ParseOpts handles every
option, not just the one the greeting reads, and inven= is matched
against inv_t_name[], which lives on the game.
All three message strings verified byte-for-byte against origin/c-master
sticks.c and main.c. No RNG call is added on any path and nothing under
game/testdata/ changed; TestSeedCompatItemTables is green against the
untouched golden.
Mutation-proved, each behavior removed in turn with only its own test
failing: dropping the message arm fails
TestZapUnhandledWandSaysBizarreSchtick; extending the message to WS_NOP
fails TestZapWandOfNothingIsSilent; putting g.refresh() back fails
TestRedrawCommandForcesFullRepaint; swapping the two wordings, and
ignoring the ROGUEOPTS name, both fail TestGreeting; greeting on the
restore path fails TestDigsNewDungeon.
ARCHITECTURE.md 5.3 gains Repaint and why a blit cannot substitute for
it; nothing here is deliberately dropped, so section 9 is unchanged.
TODO.md gets a Completed Steps entry; Next Step deliberately not rotated,
this being out-of-band issue work.
The SIGHUP/SIGTERM handler gob-encoded the live game tree from the signal
goroutine while the game goroutine was mid-turn mutating it, and AutoSave
removed the save file before encoding — so the failure mode was not a
stale save but a deleted one followed by a possibly torn replacement,
with a window in which the player had neither. The suite has run under
-race since 2026-08-09 and was green because nothing had ever driven the
turn loop concurrently with a signal: evidence of untested, not of safe.
The handler no longer writes anything. AutoSaveOnSignal posts a request,
wakes the input read, and waits up to signalSaveTimeout for the game
goroutine to take it; the encode runs on the goroutine that owns the
state, at the three points where that goroutine can sit: between turns
(command), on waking from a blocked readchar, and while parked in the `!`
shell escape (runShellEscape, which now runs the shell on a helper
goroutine so a hangup during it still rescues the game).
Blocked on input is the case that matters — a dropped connection lands
while the player is thinking, so a flag checked only between turns would
never be looked at. Terminal.ReadChar therefore returns (byte, bool),
with ok false meaning "woken by Interrupt, no key", and term.Tcell posts
a tcell.EventInterrupt onto tcell's own event queue to unpark PollEvent.
readchar services the request and reads again, so no caller sees it.
Running the shell on a helper goroutine would also have moved
term.Tcell.ShellEscape's panic on a failed Screen.Resume onto it, and a
panic at the top of any goroutine terminates the process without running
the deferred calls of the others — including cmd/rogue/main.go's
`defer t.Fini()`. The tty would have been left raw on precisely the path
where the terminal is already broken, which is issue #12's failure on a
path this change created. runShellEscape therefore recovers the helper's
panic and re-raises it on the game goroutine, whose stack has the restore
in it, so "every path restores the terminal via Terminal.Fini before
exiting" stays true.
saveFile writes a temporary file in the save's own directory, fsyncs it
and renames it over the target instead of truncating in place, so a save
that fails — or never happens because the deadline ran out — leaves the
player's previous save whole.
What the handoff guarantees is stated exactly rather than flatteringly:
the encode runs on the state-owning goroutine, so the snapshot is
internally consistent and restorable, but it is not necessarily taken
between commands. Only the check at the top of command is; the other two
service points both sit inside a command call already under way. readchar
is reached from mid-command prompts (--More--, askOverwrite, getStr, the
direction and pack prompts) with the command's mutations already applied,
and runShellEscape is reached from shell, an ordinary '!' command handler
dispatched inside command, with that turn's DoDaemons(Before) and
DoFuses(Before) already fired and its AFTER pass not yet. Restoring
re-enters playit at the top of command, so either way the rest of that
command is lost and a fresh BEFORE pass runs on top of the one in the
snapshot.
The SIGINT/SIGQUIT no-save decision and the single-signal-read ordering
guarantee are untouched. pendingSaver reads the game out from under its
mutex rather than delegating with it held, because the delegated call now
blocks until the save is taken.
Replace .golangci.yml with the shared canonical config. The old
config's top-level linters-settings block was silently ignored under
the v2 schema, so the lll/funlen/cyclop/dupl thresholds now actually
apply. The four repo-specific disables (mnd, exhaustive, paralleltest,
testpackage) move out of the config into targeted in-code nolint
directives carrying their original approval dates, keeping the config
byte-identical to the canonical one.
Fixes surfaced by the stricter settings: t.Parallel() added to all 32
tests, 24 overlong lines wrapped or their comments tightened, tcell
control-code returns rewritten as character literals, dupl markers on
the identically-shaped item data tables, and two wsl_v5 defer cuddles.
No behavior changes. The repo has no golangci-lint version pin (no
Dockerfile or CI; make lint runs the host binary, currently v2.12.2),
so there was nothing to bump.
.golangci.yml is the prompts-repo standard verbatim plus one approved
exception (paralleltest, sneak 2026-07-06). Roughly 1,500 findings
fixed:
- autofix sweep (wsl_v5/nlreturn/intrange/modernize formatting), with
the misspell autofix REVERTED where it rewrote authentic C game text
("missle vanishes" stays, with nolint and a comment)
- error handling: errcheck sites get real handling — saveFile now
closes explicitly and removes corrupt saves, scoreboard writes are
documented best-effort, err113 sentinel errors (ErrSaveOutOfDate,
ErrScreenTooSmall); panics allowed for unrecoverable states per
MEMORY.md policy
- gosec: real fixes (ParseInt for SEED, 0600 scorefile) and justified
per-line nolints for provably-bounded conversions (randomMonsterLetter
helper collapses eight rnd(26)+'A' sites)
- API tidying from linters: pointer receivers on flag types
(recvcheck), msg helpers renamed addmsgf/doaddf/Printwf/MvPrintwf
(goprintffuncname), myExit()/findFloor(monst)/mkGameInput(t) drop
always-constant params (unparam), gameEnd carries no status
- gocritic/staticcheck: if-else chains to switches, the pack.c
inventory filter untangled into matchesFilter, main.go split so
defers run before exit (exitAfterDefer, funlen)
- revive doc comments on all exported flag types/consts/methods
Remaining findings are confined to linters pending sneak's exception
decision (mnd, gochecknoglobals, cyclop, nestif, gocognit, exhaustive,
goconst, testpackage); TODO.md records the state. MEMORY.md added at
repo root as the project's agent working notes.
go.mod, term/ and cmd/ imports, the ARCHITECTURE.md module references,
and the in-game version string. User request; the repo already lives
at this remote.
- command.c in full: the command dispatcher with repeat counts, run
prefixes, ctrl-run door-stop mode, fight-to-death targeting, and all
wizard debug commands; search, help, identify, d_level/u_level, call,
current
- main.c completed: Run()/playit() with the C double ROGUEOPTS parse;
exit()-anywhere becomes a gameEnd panic recovered in Run
- save.c + state.c: gob SaveState snapshot with explicit pointer-to-
index fixups for equipment, monster rooms, and chase targets (the
rs_fix_thing role); save file deleted on restore as in C; SIGHUP/
SIGTERM autosave hook
- wizard.c completed (create_obj, show_map), passages.c add_pass
- term/: tcell/v2 Terminal — the one third-party dependency — replacing
curses and mdport's 900-line key decoder; shell escape via suspend
- cmd/rogue: flags -s/-d, SEED (wizard), ROGUEOPTS, ROGUE_WIZARD
Tests: full scripted sessions through Run (quit, descend stairs,
3200-move crash sweep, save-command round trip). Notable fixes found
by tests: gob silently drops embedded fields of unexported types, and
--More-- prompts swallow space-free input scripts.
