A warning about playing `hunt'!

[Yuki Cuss]

Hi all.

I enjoy the game of `hunt' now and then, as does everyone, I suspect.

Recently, however, huntd has mysteriously stopped working as it should; 
it complains that my hunt version is mismatched, eg;

celtic at xyrias:~$ hunt
Enter your code name: celtic
Enter your team (0-9 or nothing): 0
hunt: Version number mismatch. No go.
celtic at xyrias:~$

I thought nothing of this, and SSHd into my friend's box where we 
happily hunted.

*However*. Be very careful. A few hours after I tried to play hunt 
unsuccessfully, I noted that, whilst playing Stepmania (a graphically 
and audiably hardware-intensive game), everything was very, very lagged. 
I struggled to see why; updatedb wasn't running, nothing was processing 
in the background.

Then I ran top.

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
16956 celtic    25   0  112m  30m 8420 R 49.4  3.1   0:23.98 stepmania
 9133 celtic    25   0  2820  548  444 R 47.4  0.1 219:18.50 huntd

If you read correctly, that's huntd consuming almost half of the AMD 
Athlon64 3200+, using 219 minutes of CPU time while it's been open; not 
even anyone on the server (my workstation is personal). I'm not quite 
sure what kind of bug this is, but this message is a warning; be careful 
with hunt!

 - Yuki.

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