As a matter of fact, I have even tried this in CircleMUD bpl14 on Linux
2.0.30 and it still crashed the MUD.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mulder <mulder@cloud9.net>
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 2:25 AM
Subject: weird bpl12 crashes
>Ok, I usually dont post to this list much about problems, but I have
>recently moved my mud over to a Linux 2.0.30 system and there are alot of
>crashes. I'm running bpl12.. one of the biggest bugs is when you do
>something like:
>
>Enter the new text you'd like others to see when they look at you.
>(/s saves /h for help)
>] .-.
> (0.0)
> '=.|m|.='
> .='/@\`=.
> @8@
> _ 8@8 _
> (@__/@8@\__@)
> `-=:8@8:=-'
> |:|
> |:|
> |:|
> |:|
> |:|
> |:|
> |:|
> |:|
> |:|
> |:|
> |:|
> |:|
>] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] String too long, limit reached on message. Last
>line ignored.
>] String too long, limit reached on message. Last line ignored.
>] String too long, limit reached on message. Last line ignored.
>] String too long, limit reached on message. Last line ignored.
>] String too long, limit reached on message. Last line ignored.
>] String too long, limit reached on message. Last line ignored.
>] String too long, limit reached on message. Last line ignored.
>] %%% Disconnected from server.
>
>The entire server crashes.
>
>What would be causing this? Is there something I need to change? It seems
>like moving the server over to Linux has made it much more fragile when it
>comes to memory related (?) errors. Here is the gdb output for that crash:
>
>Core was generated by `bin/circle 4000'.
>Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
>Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5...done.
>Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...done.
>#0 0x40086432 in free ()
>(gdb) list
>194
>195 #endif
>196
>197
>198 int
>199 main (int argc, char **argv)
>200 {
>201 int port;
>202 char buf[512];
>203 int pos = 1;
>(gdb) bt
>#0 0x40086432 in free ()
>#1 0x860a0f0 in ?? ()
>#2 0x19 in ?? ()
>
>I'm assuming its something in structs.h or something of that nature, but I
>have never had problems like these before. I would appreciate a reply about
>this, thank you for reading.
>
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