Copyover - hot reboot

Reboot your MUD without players losing link. This command spawns a new copy of the MUD via exec, thus inheriting descriptors. Players' names are written to a file and players are reloaded later and hooked up to the right descriptors, meaning only that there is some temporary lag while the MUD reloads. Now with a ROM 2.4 patch, one for Smaug as well (courtesy of Walter Goodwin, updated again for 1.4) and also one for Circle.
If you are using NiMUD, here is a contributed NiMUD copyover installation guide by Niksa.
This first version of this feature appeared in This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. MUD++ codebase, and this code was inspired by it.
Version 7, last update: September 2000 -- this fixes a security problem in Smaug patch!.