> I haven't been paying much attention to the discussion lately.. So maybe > this has already been discussed and I missed the patch .. but I've just > discovered a pretty bad bug in 3.0bpl6 having to do with players and > self-deleting. > > To reproduce: > make a new char, Test, log all the way in, quit, and self-delete. > log back in as Test again, re-creating the char, and supposedly overwriting t > old, deleted one. > stat file test. The Test that shows up is DELETED. The new Test that was just > created has it's own, separate space in the pfile, and when it is logged > out, it can never be accessed again, since the first Test will always be > DELETED, so yet another duplicate character gets made in the pfile: > > guru@alfonso:~/circle/src/util> ./showplay ../../lib/etc/players > 1. ID: 1 (M) [34 Th] Guru 0g 0b > 2. ID: 2 (M) [ 1 Th] Test 0g 0b > 3. ID: 3 (M) [ 1 Th] Test 0g 0b ... Already fixed in pl7.
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