IRC Bot

I have started making an IRC Bot that you can run in JNode.

Here's what I hope to be able to make it do:
Trivia Questions
Random Quotes
Jokes
Reminders
Respond to questions asked to it
Respond to general statements made in the channel
Add eventually make it self-aware

Completed So far:
Almost the basic bot of just being able to connect to the server and say "Hello World!"

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Net Command Kernel Panic

Submitted by The Captain on Fri, 03/09/2007 - 22:31.

Lock not owned by us: java.lang.Object00000001
0F5CCFA8 0F5CCFA0 00000000 00044C00 00000001
Debug stacktrace: org.jnode.vm.VmStackReader::debugStackTrace
org.jnode.vm.VmStackReader::debugStackTrace
java.nio.channels.spi.ApstractSelectableChannel::configureBlocking
org.xbill.DNS.Client::"init"
org.xbill.DNS.TCPClient::"init"
org.xbill.DNS.ZoneTransferIn::openConnection
org.xbill.DNS.ZoneTransferIn::run
org.xbill.DNS.SimpleResolver::sendAXFR
org.xbill.DNS.SimpleResolver::send
org.xbill.DNS.ExtendedResolver$Resolution::start
org.xbill.DNS.ExtendedResolver::send
org.xbill.DNS.Lookup::lookup
org.xbill.DNS.Lookup::resolve
org.xbill.DNS.Lookup::run
org.jnode.net.ipv4.util.ResolverImpl$2::run
org.jnode.vm.VmAccessController::doPrivileged
java.security.AccessCotnroller::doPrivileged
org.jnode.net.ipv4.util.ResolverImpl::getByName
org.jnode.net.service.NetAPIImpl::getHostByName

The following was from running:
net irc.freenode.net 6667

Confirmed: I just did it again. This occurs because the net command only excepts IP address. However, there many be instances where you don't know the IP but know the host name, so I think the command should be expanded to include this which would only require a simple DNS query to find the IP address.

Also, there is an error in the Resolver command where if you just type resolver is shoots out errors because there is no check on the size in the arguments inputted into the command. Also recommend fix this as well.

Making bug testing program

Submitted by The Captain on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 00:40.

That's shouldn't be a problem to make, you type in what I type Smiling
I will look into it next week when I get some time.

Maybe we could also use this for the SoC??

Fixing and improving the net command. - Mentors what you think?

not a good SoC project

Submitted by Fabien D on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 01:35.

Bug fixing doesn't make a good SoC project.

Let's imagine you are a student that doesn't know JNode. Will you be attracted by such a project. In general, probably no.
So, I think that will not attract many people or maybe none.

Of course, we still need some bug fixing and fixing some bugs is a way to learn for developers.

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

That panic is a worry!

Submitted by Stephen Crawley on Sat, 03/10/2007 - 23:47.

AFAIK, the panic happens when the JVM tries to release a primitive object lock only to find that the lock is not owned by the current thread. This should never, ever happen. (I've seen it before in other contexts ... though not repeatably.)

The root cause of this problem needs to be tracked down and fixed. It would be really good if you could distill your app down to a simple test case that (repeatably) causes these panics, then submit it as part of a JNode bug report.