server panic using force_input() in 1.8.0p1

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>This just happened to me as a wizard on a moo running under 1.8.0p1:
>
>  ;force_input(#10000,"hello")
>  => 0
>  *** Shutting down: server panic ***

Same bug in 1.8.0p2

Simple in-db patch:

@prop $server_options.protect_force_input 1
@program #0:bf_force_input
  if (!valid(args[1]))
    return raise(E_INVARG);
   else
     set_task_perms(caller_perms());
     return force_input(@args);
  endif
.

Hope this help.

Richard

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