Twenty-three years later, I recovered the CVS history from SourceForge — 954 commits, three authors, a continuous trail from September 2002 to November 2005. The full retrospective covers what I built, what I never finished, and why. There’s a companion piece on the Bahamut IRC server fork that this depends on.
So I just tagged 0.2.8 and I think this thing is getting close to usable.
Quick recap for those who don’t know: Sux Services are IRC services I’m writing from scratch in C for the Azzurra IRC Network. The idea is: multithreaded, modular, SQL backend instead of flat files, and not a complete mess to maintain. We’ll see about that last part.
What works right now: NickServ does registration, identification, password change, ghost kill. ChanServ has channel registration, access lists (CF/SOP/AOP/VOP/AKICK) with masks support, and it actually enforces access on join. MemoServ sends and reads memos, notifies you on connect if you have new ones. OperServ has AKILL, server MAP, STATS. There’s even a RootServ for the really scary stuff.
The whole thing connects to a Bahamut IRCd, negotiates the server link, syncs all users and channels, and then the five service agents boot up as virtual users. Modules are compiled as .so files and loaded at runtime via GLib’s GModule. If I want to reload NickServ I just unload and reload the module, no restart needed. Pretty cool.
I’m testing it with netxplode which is a perl script that spawns 100 IRC clients and hammers services with random commands – IDENTIFY, INFO, REGISTER, JOIN, you name it. Basically 100 bots going completely nuts on NickServ and ChanServ at the same time. Found a lot of bugs this way. Also found an SQL injection in the nickname handling last week which was fun. Fixed now, we use sql_printf() to escape everything, but yeah, that could have been bad.