/modrestart used to be implemented as a normal command and could crash
when used remotely because it would reload m_encap, which was on the
call stack at the time. This was fixed in 41390bfe5f. However,
/modreload has exactly the same problem, so I'm giving it the
same treatment.
Incidentally: This bug was first discovered in ircd-seven, where the
`/mod*` commands themselves live in the core, so m_encap was the only way
the crash could happen (and it didn't most of the time, because m_encap
would only be moved if you got unlucky). But `/mod*` are in modules in
charybdis, so /modrestart would have unloaded the code it was in the
middle of executing. With that in mind, I'm not sure how it ever
appeared to work.
Reloading modules sends CAP DEL followed by an immediate CAP NEW:
:staberinde.local CAP * DEL :account-tag
:staberinde.local CAP * NEW :account-tag
This isn't very nice. /modrestart is particularly bad. In order to avoid
doing this, we remember the capability set at the beginning of module
operations, compare that with the set afterwards, and report only the
differences with CAP {DEL,NEW}.
There's no reason to really have these in the main ircd anymore, static
modules are dead and aren't coming back.
To ensure people don't do something hopelessly retarded, this is a core
module.
MAPI V1 is still supported for legacy modules, but it is highly
recommended to update to MAPI V2. It includes support for capability
tables, module descriptions, and implicit versions.
