On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 03:23:39PM -0600, Mike Barton wrote: > I must reiterate Jason's point, executing another program like ls from within > the MUD is really slow and kind of messy, and some people are pretty anal > about wasting cycles.
Not just wasting cycles, it's silly. (And pointless as originally coded, since logging in two players at once creates a race...) > One thing to remember is that all of the shell programs like ls are > themselves written in C, so you can usually find the code out there to do > what you want without the problems inherent in calling outside programs. in other words, opendir(3), readdir(3) and some string compares.
