Re: [BUFFER] Bufffer overflow

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 08/11/00


On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Brian Beffa wrote:

>I have 186 levels, and that means when i type levels, there is nine pages of
>levels,  and only for the cleric, theif, and warrior classes of my five
>levels does the mud crash, or shutdown.
>
>Aug 10 17:06:52 :: SYSERR: Received SIGHUP, SIGINT, or SIGTERM.  Shutting
>down.
>Aug 10  ..... SYSERR: BUFFER OVERFLOW
>
>and in the shell, while it crashed or whatever came up this message:
>
> ./autorun: line 92: 24778 Segmentation fault
>    bin/circle $FLAGS $PORT >>syslog 2>&1
>
>any help would be appreciated

Yep, 9 pages of text is definitely larger than 8192 character.  You didn't
read the code much around the error message?

--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org


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