On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Anil Mahajan wrote:
> Yes, file_to_string_alloc uses an array to store the data from the
>file before it allocates it to a string. If the file is large than
>the string, the MUD will most likely crash.
> The easiest way to fix this is just to make the array larger. I doubt
>it's the _best_ solution, but it will fix it (until you're file gets bigger
>than this new array).
But it should bail before overflowing the array, unless somehow the
detection doesn't work anymore. Last time I had a big file it worked.
--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org
http://www.circlemud.org/~greerga/
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