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8121: [MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch
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From: "Ross Nicoll" <rnicoll@calmar-mud.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 20:34:06 -0000
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
s001gmu wrote in a Mail about "[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from
scratch":
> I recall a figure of 'an afternoon's work' being quoted. *shrug*
Would be quite a bit longer for me, mostly because of how the database code
is designed (one file, binary, and reliable too).
> I believe they also tied that in with the crash-recovery. In case of a
> seg fault they catch the signal and do a gracefull soft-boot. I dunno
> if they put a counter/timer in it, to catch things like loading a
> certain p-file causing the seg-fault (which would send the server into
> a lovely infinite reboot cycle).
That wouldn't really suit my MUD, if anything is wrong, it almost definately
means some of the data is corrupted, and so a database save would just crash
it again. Anyway, we tend to be up for about 2 weeks at a time, which isn't
bad...
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