[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch

[Holly Sommer]

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, T. Alexander Popiel wrote:

> In message:  <45760210 at lostics.demon.co.uk>
>              "Ross Nicoll" <rnicoll at calmar-mud.com> writes:
> 
> >Reminds me of a thought I had for my MUD. The MUD, whenever we change anything
> >in the code (it's a Diku style MUD, most of the stuff is in code), obviously
> >has to go through a reboot. I was wandering about having the data for
> >connections written out with the database (with sanity checking on load, of
> >course, incase something goes wrong after the database is saved), then have
> >the server load the new binary over itself with one of the exec() functions.
> >
> >The player would get "The server is rebooting, please wait" or similar...
> 
> This is, unfortunately, non-portable... 

Eh? We've gotten it to work under both Linux and BSDi with minimal fuss.

-Holly