Re: LYNX-DEV Bug in Lynx 2.6

[Ian T Zimmerman]

In article <address@hidden> Dan
Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> 
> In Lynx 2.6, I believe i have encountered a bug. After choosing a
> few links aimlessly from yahoo, ctrl-z no longer does its duty to
> suspend. I tried this many different times, at many different links
> and sites, and it seems to happen 95% of the time...
> 

This is a bug in some (all?) versions of ncurses.  I explained this in
a post in comp.os.linux.development.system a while back; I don't know
if it has been fixed by the ncurses people yet.

Here's the patch (apply in the ncurses-x.y.z/ncurses directory):

--- lib_doupdate.c~     Tue Aug 27 15:28:34 1996
+++ lib_doupdate.c      Tue Aug 27 14:35:23 1996
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@
                FD_SET(SP->_checkfd, &fdset);
                if (select(SP->_checkfd+1, &fdset, NULL, NULL, &ktimeout) != 0) 
{
                        fflush(SP->_ofp);
+                       _nc_signal_handler(TRUE);
                        return OK;
                }
        }

(I hope maintainers of ncurses see this)

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Ian T Zimmerman                        <address@hidden>
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