Running multi commands (input commands delimited by semi-colons) did not
work with the thin client. The commands would actually run on the
server, but the thin client would exit immediately without displaying
the output. The reason was that MainLoop would report the exec complete
when all it had done was split the original command into its constituent
parts and prepended them to the state command list. To work around this,
when we detect a network source command, we can remap its exec id to a
different id and only report the original exec id after the commands
complete. We also have to keep track of whether or not the command
succeeded or failed so that the reporting command reports the correct
result.
The way its implemented is with the the following steps:
1. set the terminal to the network terminal
2. stash the current onFailure so that we can properly report failures
3. add the new exec id to a map of the original exec id to the generated
id
4. actually run the command
5. if the command succeeds, add the original exec id to a result map
6. pop the onFailure
7. restore the terminal to console
8. report the result -- if the original exec id is in the result map we
report success. Otherwise we report failure.
There is also logic in NetworkChannel for finding the original exec id
if reporting one of the artificially generated exec ids because the
client will not be aware of that id.
Ethan Atkins