KingofBananas

you can also just clear the map of all GO's and Creatures and then there will be nothing to exploit and MaNGOS won't crash... but you will have to backup the data

easiest way I found is to create a custom quest, that has no questgiver and use that in areatrigger_teleport as a condition to enter bugged instances... easier than applying a patch imho (if this will not be included in core)

running every player in a thread for himself would cause lots of problems and synchronization overhead... it is not something one can easily implement... Also there was a discussion some time ago if mangos should go the mutlithreading way (1 executable) or the multiprocessing way (several executables for each part of the world..), but I don't know how it ended. anyway I don't think its appropriate to discuss this here... also your request looks like one can pull this off in 1 week. It is really something that is way harder to implement than you think and may take some time... Bottom line is, you will not see something like that in mangos for at least some months (also what is there is not a crash but a failed assertion.. a programmer puts it somewhere where he assumes that some variable/pointer has to meet a certain condition. When this is not the case you get that error... its not really a crash...)

Got this error... running an older version of mangos(should be 7032) + sd2 812 + AHBot... It compiles fine on my ubuntu, but doesn't on my friends server... He says that build-essentials etc. are all up to date.. Someone knows where the problem could be? make[5]: Entering directory `/opt/mangos-src/objdir/dep/ACE_wrappers/ace' /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../../../../dep/ACE_wrappers -I.. -DACE_BUILD_DLL -W -Wall -Wpointer-arith -g -O2 -pthread -pipe -O3 -MT libACE_la-ACE.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libACE_la-ACE.Tpo -c -o libACE_la-ACE.lo `test -f 'ACE.cpp' || echo '../../../../dep/ACE_wrappers/ace/'`ACE.cpp ../libtool: line 813: X--tag=CXX: command not found ../libtool: line 846: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found ../libtool: line 813: X--mode=compile: command not found ../libtool: line 979: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.: command not found ../libtool: line 980: *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: Xg++: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-DHAVE_CONFIG_H: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-I../../../../dep/ACE_wrappers: No such file or directory ../libtool: line 1123: X-I..: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-DACE_BUILD_DLL: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-W: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-Wall: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-Wpointer-arith: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-g: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-O2: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-pthread: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-pipe: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-O3: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-MT: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: XlibACE_la-ACE.lo: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-MD: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-MP: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X-MF: command not found ../libtool: line 1123: X.deps/libACE_la-ACE.Tpo: No such file or directory ../libtool: line 1123: X-c: command not found ../libtool: line 1174: XlibACE_la-ACE.lo: command not found ../libtool: line 1179: libtool: compile: cannot determine name of library object from `': command not found make[5]: *** [libACE_la-ACE.lo] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/opt/mangos-src/objdir/dep/ACE_wrappers/ace' make[4]: *** [all] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/opt/mangos-src/objdir/dep/ACE_wrappers/ace' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/mangos-src/objdir/dep/ACE_wrappers' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/mangos-src/objdir/dep' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/mangos-src/objdir' make: *** [all] Error 2

well I don't think that it's worth to take down smaller servers (those server actually help bliz to get a bigger community because people start to like the game there for free and then want to see how it is with 10k+ players) Well, time will tell...

I personally like the idea of Multiprocessing. Wyk3d's objections are good, but I think that it always will be a bad time to implement something that big. You will always have big changes going on if you like it or not and that multiprocessing is needed in the future is also a fact. But it's the devs who are implementing such things so I'll stick with what they are going to do.