Re: CHECKPOINT shutdown

From: Ronald Fenner (abbadon@mac.com)
Date: 04/26/02


On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 03:31 PM, Alex wrote:

>> CHECKPOINT shutdown: tics not updated. (Infinite loop suspected)
>> What exactly causes that?
> An infinite loop in the code.  The code can't get out of a part of a
> function, and thus, the program shuts down because it suspects an
> infinite
> loop.
>
if you get a core dump when it happens look at it and you'll find what
function it was stuck in usually. what you'll see for the first few
should be the signal raised and the mud exiting after that should be the
function that it was in at the time the signal was raised.

Ron

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