set_author(3)         LPC Library Functions         set_author(3)

NAME
     set_author - set the author associated with an object.

SYNOPSIS
     void set_author( string author );

DESCRIPTION
     Every object has both an author and a domain associated with
     it  for  the purposes of tracking statistics for authors and
     domains.  Domains may only be set in the master object func-
     tion  domain_file(4),  however  authors are different.  They
     can be initialized to some default value  by  author_file(4)
     in  the  master  object,  but  can also be changed using the
     set_author efun.

     set_author changes the author  of  the  object  that  it  is
     called  within.   That author will get credit for all future
     actions of that object that affect mudlib statistics.   Note
     that  this  may  cause  some  weird  numbers to occur in the
     categories "objects" and "array_size", since the object  may
     have  initialized  arrays or been created under the original
     author's credit, but it could  be  destructed  or  free  the
     arrays  that  it's using under another author, thus reducing
     numbers from a count that didn't  have  those  same  numbers
     added  previously.   To  rememdy  this,  only use set_author
     within create(4), and use it before any arrays are allocated
     if at all possible.

SEE ALSO
     author_file(4),       domain_file(4),       author_stats(3),
     set_author(3), domain_stats(3)

MudOS                Last change: 5 Sep 1994                    1