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Syntax: queued_tasks () => LISTReturns information on each of the background tasks (i.e., forked, suspended, or reading) owned by the programmer (or, if the programmer is a wizard, all queued tasks). The returned value is a list of lists, each of which encodes certain information about a particular queued task in the following format:
{<task-id>, <start-time>, <ticks>, <clock-id>,
<programmer>, <verb-loc>, <verb-name>, <line>, <this>, <task-size>}
where <task-id> is a numeric identifier for this queued task, <start-time> is the time after which this task will begin execution (in `time()' format), <ticks> is the number of ticks this task will have when it starts (always 20,000 now, though this is changeable. This makes this value obsolete and no longer interesting), <clock-id> is a number whose value is no longer interesting, <programmer> is the permissions with which this task will begin execution (and also the player who "owns" this task), <verb-loc> is the object on which the verb that forked this task was defined at the time, <verb-name> is that name of that verb, <line> is the number of the first line of the code in that verb that this task will execute, and <this> is the value of the variable `this' in that verb. For reading tasks, <start-time> is `-1'. <task-size> is in bytes, and is the size of memory in use by the task for local variables, stack frames, etc.
The <ticks> and <clock-id> fields are now obsolete and are retained only for backward-compatibility reasons. They may disappear in a future version of the server.