[cod] Max number of maps in maprotation

[John Sherrit.net]

Nicolai Guba wrote:

>On Wednesday 23 November 2005 12:03, Christophe Rome wrote:
>  
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>New to the list and hoping not to ask something that has already been
>>answered before.
>>
>>  I was wondering if there's a maximum number of maps you can put into the
>>sv_maprotation? I'm asking this because I can put in up to 34 maps. If I
>>put in more the server won't start with the following error: "sys_error:
>>error during initialization: attempted to overrun string in call to va()".
>>
>>  I read somewhere that the string is limited to 1024 characters. Is this
>>true? If yes, can this be changed? Does the Windows server handle this
>>string in the same way?
>>    
>>
>
>I am afraid this looks like a hard coded limit.  ie, something along the lines 
>of
>	char* string = malloc(1024);
>
>and then some assertation failing making sure the parameter does not exceed 
>its bounds.
>
>I haven't written the server but chances are extremely high that both 
>implemtations share the same codebase apart from the platform specific 
>aspects.
>
>But then, I could be horribly wrong :)  You are better off just trying this on 
>a windows server (any recent windows box should do) and see whether that's a 
>linux problem only or shared across architectures.
>
>Hope this helps.
>  
>
I tried this and it crashes windows servers as well when you use >1024 
chars which means you can't run all maps on all rotations :(