LYNX-DEV Re: lynx NSL_FORK patch

[Tomasz Jan Cholewo]

Tom Zerucha wrote:

> Please forward this to the lynx-dev mailing list (see the READMEs in
> the compilation) if you have not already done so.  I will update my
> patch when I get a chance.  Thanks for tracking it down - I can't test
> every flavor of UNIX.
>
> On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Tomasz Jan Cholewo wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The NSL_FORK patch didn't work for me on IRIX 6.2.  The reason was that
> > the call (lynx2-6rp + lynx2-6.1028.all):
> >
> > HTTCP.c:494          ioctl( pfd[0], FIONREAD, &cstat );
> >
> > returns zero in cstat.  Changing this call to I_NREAD from <stropts.h>
> > didn't help.  The following patch somehow makes things work by forcing
> > 'read' to get 4 bytes no matter what:
> >
> > --- lynx2-6.work/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTTCP.c  Sat Nov  2 20:53:08 
> > 1996
> > +++ lynx2-6/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTTCP.c  Sat Nov  2 20:48:28 1996
> > @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@
> >           /* read as much as we can - should be the address */
> >           ioctl( pfd[0], FIONREAD, &cstat );
> >
> > -#if defined(VMS) && defined(CMU_TCP)
> > +#if (defined(VMS) && defined(CMU_TCP)) || defined(sgi)
> >
> >           /* from the original - tz */
> >
> >
> > I have no way of checking if other IRIX versions have the same problem,
> > so this solution may have to be made a bit more specific.
> >
> > Thanks for a good job on this patch.  I can only wish other browsers
> > would allow interrupting name lookups too.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >   Tomasz Cholewo
> >
> >
>
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