Fix race condition in arena team creation causing duplicates on restart #91
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Fix for Issue mod-playerbots#2103: Arena Teams Continue to Grow
Problem Analysis
The issue is a race condition in
PlayerbotFactory::InitArenaTeam(). When multiple bots log in simultaneously during server startup, they all checkrandomBotArenaTeams.empty()before any of them finish creating teams, causing duplicate team creation and arena teams to grow with each server restart.Solution
Used a mutex with RAII and proper scoping for thread-safe arena team creation:
std::mutex arenaTeamCreationMutexto synchronize team creationtry_to_lockImplementation Plan
Changes Made
#include <mutex>for thread synchronizationstd::mutex arenaTeamCreationMutexInitArenaTeam()to use scopedstd::unique_lockwith try_locksrc/Bot/Factory/PlayerbotFactory.cpp(30 insertions, 20 deletions)Testing Notes
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