[Opensim-users] osNpcLoadApparence severe issue

[Olivier van Helden]

(note: too bad I noticed that *after* the 0.7.3.1 release, sorry Justin)

In my install osNpcLoadAppearence makes the simulator severely crash if called twice and too fast for the same NPC.
(I say "severly" because console does not respond anymore, kill doesn't kill and I have to kill the parent process to actually kill mono)

I tested on Linux and FreeBSD. I didn't have the chance (and didn't want) to check on anyone else installation (I definitively don't want to crash somebody else server just for tests).
But if anyone has a crash-test simulator with NPC allowed, I would be happy to test my script there.

I have an NPC creator, which allows to switch appearance. Works fine, unless I click too fast.

If I call osNpcLoadAppearence a second time, before the appearance is razzed, the (let's say within the next second), the simulator crashes, without specific error in the log.

Of course, I can update my lsl script to handle that. But the crash makes a high thread risk.

The script engine should do at least one of the following:
	- force sleep after osNpcLoadAppearance
	- fail, silently or with an error code if fired twice for the same NPC within a given interval, or before the new appearance has finished loading.