DGD Kernel Library Information

When writing your Kernel-based MUD library, make sure you've read the general help for writing a DGD MUDLib, which apply to your Kernel-based lib as well.

The Basics

• Basic Kernel MUDLib Commands
• Layers of the Driver and Lib

The Not-So-Basics

• The Kernel MUDLib and Inheritance
• Getting Started Modifying the Kernel MUDLib
• Kernel MUDLib Security
• Object Creators and Owners
• Users and Connections, the nuts and bolts
• Debugging a MUDLib
• Overhead and the Kernel

Adding Stuff to your MUDLib

• Overview
• Directory Structure
• Adding an Errord
• Multiple-thread Functions
• Additional AUTO Objects
• Writing an Object Manager

Related Topics in the Phantasmal MUDLib

Note: Phantasmal prepends a % sign to most Kernel Library command names, but leaves them otherwise basically unmodified.

• Compiling Objects (note: Kernel lib has no %full_rebuild command)
• Evaluating Arbitrary Code
• Access, Resources and Quotas

Slush Bin

There is an archive of lots of interesting email messages about the Kernel Library. There's also one about DGD in general, not just the Kernel Lib.

These directories grow organically. Feel free to request that I expand any section and I will give it correspondingly higher priority than would otherwise be the case. All information under the Kernel subdirectory may be assumed to be in the public domain, and I reserve no rights to it nor do I provide a warranty of any kind.

This document aims to get you started dealing with the Kernel MUDLib, and eventually explain vast amounts about it. Any of the pages linked under here may be assumed to deal with the Kernel MUDLib, and will thus likely be different when dealing with Melville, 2.4.5, Gurba or other MUDLibs not based on the Kernel MUDLib. Other people are welcome to document such things, but the part of my site under the Kernel subdirectory makes a point of not doing so.

This document includes information from correspondence on the DGD Mailing List . Further information of many kinds is available on the official DGD homepage . This documents is current as of Kernel library 1.2.35, an experimental version. Little information should be more obsolete than that, but much information may be different because of the quirks of an experimental version of DGD. Don't assume that this is fully accurate for your version, whether it's newer or older than the one above.