On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Angus Mezick wrote:
> 1) can the site admins (esp for circlemud.org) please add links to the
> archive for this mail list and to the DG scripts pages? Circlemud.org
> also needs a link to alex's page. please please please please please
I already have them on the main page of 'http://www.van.ml.org'
> 2) Shared objects - on a unix system is it allowed to replace a shared
> object without bringing down the mud if the functions in that object
> are not called while the copy is taking place. I am trying to think
> of a way to hot swap in changes to non core object file while the mud
> is running. (i.e. redit.c, spell_parser.c) a core file would be
> comm.c, interpreter.c, db.c(?).
Try the 'dl' library. I have a non-finished, non-working patch for it on
my projects page I (obviously) haven't finished. It's called Dynamic ACMD
I think.
Otherwise, try 'man dlopen' and it'll tell you the functions and you can go
from there.
--
George Greer - Me@Null.net | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity
http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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