• EBAS v1.8 - speed (95,363 bytes) [June 10, 1998]
  Upgrade from v1.7 (96,879 bytes) [June 10, 1998]
  1. Much faster.
  2. General cleanup.
  3. Read the patch, this entry isn't even nearly complete.
• EBAS v1.7 - threads (69,171 bytes) [December 16, 1997]
  1. Included as a patch against stock CircleMUD.
  2. Should now be thread-safe without (apparent) races or crashes.
  3. If you don't have threads this won't be a large change from v1.6
• Buffer Patch v1.6 BETA - Need for speed (45,358 bytes) [October 2, 1997]
  1. Only as an upgrade patch from Buffer v1.5.
  2. This works fine in the limited testing I was able to do currently.
  3. Runs much faster also.
• Buffer Patch v1.5 - Tweaks (298,819 bytes) [August 25, 1997]
  Upgrade v1.4 to v1.5 (28,992 bytes) [August 25, 1997]
  1. Adds profiling, you probably want to remove it from Makefile.
  2. buffer.h stops piggy-backing utils.h
  3. Changed many #if 1/0 statements to TRUE/FALSE values.
  4. Changed Magic Number to 0x06 (NAK) by suggestion of Angus.
  5. Removed __FUNCTION__ check, added new one for __GNUC__ in buffer.h
  6. Fixed minor oversight in free_buffer() with regard to last_alloc cache.
  7. Changed the couldn't find a page message to a verbose one.
  8. Beefed up the 'buffer' command to include toggles.
  9. Includes buffer usage count function fixes.
  10. Removed release_and_return as an option, use release_my_buffers().
• Buffer Patch v1.4 - Preparation (292,780 bytes) [August 21, 1997]
  1. Resized most buffers in act.comm.c and act.informative.c
  2. Can now report how much space a function used in its buffer.
  3. Migration begun toward snprintf() utilization.
  4. More effective at detecting buffer overruns.
  5. Fixed a small non-critical counting bug with number of overruns.
  6. Added online buffer control command.
  7. Added small help file called buffer.txt.
  8. CircleMUD socket buffers now use this system.
  9. Fixed a missed Windows buf variable.
• Buffer Patch v1.3 - Corruption handling (280,497 bytes) [August 20, 1997]
  1. Detects buffer corruption and can either recover or reboot the MUD.
  2. Fixed a bug where all persistant buffers were converted to normal ones.
  3. Includes 'crash' command to test overflows for your OS.
  4. Fixed a miscalculation that resulted in an extremely long time out period.
• Buffer Patch v1.2 - Cleanup (277,273 bytes) [August 19, 1997]
  1. All functions (should) now properly release their buffers.
  2. Added many 'cannot happen' checks into the code.
  3. Cleaned up a couple portions of the code.
  4. Ready for general (testing) use.
• Buffer Patch v1.1 - Freedom (283,244 bytes) [August 18, 1997]
  1. Totally eliminates need for original buffer system with this patch.
  2. New buffer system is used everywhere.
  3. A few functions (look for warnings or XXX in code) still don't release buffers.
  4. Not yet ready for general use but getting there quickly.
• Buffer Patch v1.0 - improved buffer system (76,126 bytes) [July 28, 1997]
  1. Enhanced the buffering system of CircleMUD away from stack character arrays.
  2. Automatically recovers unreleased buffers and reports which function forgot.
  3. Keeps a list of static buffers for quick reuse like comm.c does for output.
  4. Will create buffers if it runs out and frees unused buffers after 5 minutes. (tweakable)
  5. Not totally finished adding release_buffer() calls to the stock code but release_all_buffers() will take care of those til I do.
  6. Accidently cooked v0.9 so I made a new diff out of the directory.

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