Stefan/Unixmad, read. It's urgent.
 

Some damned idiot fool has created an infinite loop in UN's NPC server (we think, it may be in a level). If possible we'd like NPC server killed for the time being so we can A) delete the NPC and B) fire the nitwit.

Cant you just d/c it in RC?

We can't log on RC. We get spammed to death. Angel's working on something though that might work.

1) I thought Graal only did 10000 loops per second before it reached it's limit. (Granted, 10000 PMs in a second could kill anything).

2) Was there any malicious intent?

It's no longer in the serverlist, as of a few seconds ago.

Edit: Stefan's there, that's why.

It is 10000 iterations without delay, so....

NPC Code:

---

while (true) {

  for (i = 0; i < 10000; i ++)

    do_malicious_things();

  sleep 0.1;

}

---

Then it's not really an infinite loop in the traditional sense :p

There was.
Stefan fixed it. <3 Stefan.

umm clev wanted me to post this for him:

Ok I am the so called "idiot" and the fact that it took hours for stefan to come on and d/c through some high tech what ever just boggles me. I could have disabled it at any time through just my level 2 RC with NC oh and one more thing yes i used an infinite code you idiots. - Clev

To Clev :D!:
Hi idiot. If you can't log on RC, you can't disable it at any time. You're a pathetic excuse for a scripter, and by extension a pathetic excuse for a person.

Hope you enjoy your global banning, but not very much. :)

And SingleChance, please don't post any more for other people. Thanks.

It's against Forum Rules to post for other people in the first place....:\

what the hell shutup.

Technically that wouldn't work. When it hit the 10,000th loop in the for(), it'd abort the script and thus never reach the sleep.

It wouldn't abort the script, man. The limit's 10,000 - in other words, that's the maximum.

Hmm, you might be right. I haven't experimented with it much.

Either way, a simple timeout system would be more reliable :)

Just tested; I am. :)

And indeed, timeout's more reliable, and simpler as well.

Ever tried nesting semi-infinite loops? They do all kinds of strange stuff. I have yet to understand the counter's inner workings.

Indeed, and in a few cases they managed to exceed the limit, even though by all logic they should not have.