>> >> Seriously though. It really isn't all that hard for a would >> be cheater to log >> in a character with the Almighty Sword of Slayage give the >> sword to some >> other character, then run a program which would exhaust all your file >> descriptors so when they quit, it wouldn't save their pfile. >> Then they stop the >> program again, log back in, and voom. Instantly they have 2 >> Almighty Swords of >> Slayage. > > Elaborate.. what "program" are they going to run inside a mud that > opens file descriptors? >
$ while (1) do telnet yourmud.address.com port& done That will suck up descriptors... then when done: killall telnet Granted it will take all their system resources to do.. that was just something off the top of my head. Jef
