Sorry Richard, no confusion meant..
I was only using the "!" to express that it didn't return a char, but a
NULL. Like I said.. example functions.
As for why things would be checked.. We have a noble system in place. When a
character is loaded, it checks that characters followers to make sure they
all still exist (offline deletion, etc) to make sure the character isn't
credited with followers that no longer exist.
Well, the problem exists where, if for some reason a character is retrieved
via "get_char_offline" and then for some other reason retrieved again (if
already loaded, "get_char_online"), and then unloaded ("unload_char") by the
second get.
As you all know, when a character is unloaded, all their EQ is stripped, so
what ends up happening, is the character is stripped and unloaded, but still
resident in memory in another location, but now naked... so when the
character is unloaded the second time a naked character is saved,
effectively deleting all the characters EQ.
Is that clearer??? Damn I hope so... again, sorry for any confusion.
- Valnir
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Lindsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Valnir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:36 PM
Subject: RE: Characters loosing EQ.
It may help if you told us why you were checking followers for the
finger function, and in what cases get_char_offline returns a false
value, since you check for that at the beginning of check_followers, I'm
assuming it checks to see if the char is logged in and if so, returns
false... and what your unload_char function actually does, because if
it's dumping the eq list then it sounds like something's just not
written write in it... and just out of curiosity, why are you using that
unload_char function instead of something like
save_char_obj/extract_char? And since you're only loading the player
for a finger command, the save_char_obj wouldn't even be necessary, you
could just load the character, format the output and send to the
fingerer, and extract the character...
Richard Lindsey
-----Original Message-----
From: Valnir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Characters loosing EQ.
Here is a good question for you guys.
We have a problem where when a character is loaded via
"get_char_offline"
and then another function ALSO gets the same char online/offline and
does
"unload_char", it dumps all the eq, then re-saves and unloads the char
at
the end of the prior function.
Example.
void do_finger ( CHAR_DATA *ch, char *argument )
{
CHAR_DATA *victim;
victim = get_char_offline( argument );
check_followers( victim );
// OUTPUT HERE
unload_char( victim );
return;
}
void check_followers( CHAR_DATA *ch )
{
if ( !get_char_offline( follower ) )
blah blah blah.
unload_char( follower );
return;
}
In "get_char_offline" the system uses "load_char_obj" and in
"load_char_obj"
it checks for a valid liege...... by "get_char_offline" and then
"unload_char".
So we are unloading the char, before we're really done with it.. did I
lose
you?
I am sure SOMEONE has run across this issue.
- Valnir
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