[Ante-developer] new features, new breakage

[Rogue <rog...@co...>]

Bug fix's:
Ok, I've fixed all the major bugs, including from php to php to ant to php  
to ant to php to ant communications (sounds confusing, it is.. )  
(Basically, input comes in from ant, goes to a php script which echos it  
back to ant, ant grabs it and runs the input, then the script exits, but  
the new "skill" system uses php so it would launch php before letting the  
input bar report itself as finished to ant, but it was running waitpid  
with -1 as the first argument, which is wrong, that makes waitpid return  
for any child process, when it should only return for the one run last..)

fixed the bug where the engine would ignore posts every once in a while

Recently new features:
PHP scripts with Bi-Directional communications with the server. (The  
script prints a special string to the stdout with regular printf, then if  
the "callback" has a response they read a single line from stdin for a  
response.)

"Grant" script to grant other users already loaded scripts

autorun.php script that runs once by every player when they log in for the  
very first time, to add base commands with special callbacks

loadskills.php run once on every bootup by the mud to register skills with  
the engine using special callbacks

Added infinate loop protection over scripts (If a script runs for more  
than 5 seconds it's killed, the method used for this protection is  
blazingly fast)

Cleaned up a bunch of code so it's easier to read, and maintain

Breakage:
Every once in a while "close" isn't called when someone disconnects(over  
telnet). This probobly is a memory leak, but I'm to tired tonight to look  
for it. I'll look tomarrow.

Pending:
Some telnet negotiations. I'm trying to get the server to elicit a  
response from the client, so it can try telling it to echo (for microsoft  
telnet), and to hide passwords in telnet, and hopefully get an "instant"  
welcome message for telnet and to be able to determine that a web browser  
is NOT telnet so to never send the welcome message, it will add extra http  
header lines, but browsers won't understand them so they should ignore  
them and it should work. But the client doesn't want to respond to me,  
obviously i'm doing something wrong. I'll figure it out, after I fix the  
disconnect problem.

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