Re: LYNX-DEV Re: More on NSL Fork

[Foteos Macrides]

Nelson Henry Eric <address@hidden> wrote:
>[...]
>I don't know what `glitch' that was, 

        The "glitch" was that it sent an HTAlert message claiming an
access failure instead of an HTProgress message acknowledging the
interrupt.


>                                       and I couldn't find one, so that is
>why I turned to lynx-dev.  On the other hand, I don't see what I could
>possibly do to get a proper build, that I haven't done already.
>
>To restate the `problem': it is that I get the same _alert_ message whether
>I terminate the lookup or whether a lookup is allowed to time out.  Failing
>to terminate is NOT the problem, i.e., the fork is working.  The problem was
>present with lynx2-6 [09-02-96] with the original patch when built with
>ncurses-1.9.9e.  (Still have that image on the public access lynx here, but
>over the slow telnet, that won't help much.)  I still find the problem with
>lynx2-6FM [01-02-97] built with slang0.99-34.  All of this is on sunos4.1.3.
>
>Don't know what else to say.

        It doesn't send an HTAlert when I 'z'ap a DNS lookup with a
solaris2 make on Scott's system with SunOS v5.4, or an osf make on
an AXP system.  If the forking code, itself, does work on a system,
the messaging follows that, and should also work.

        If you interrupt the DNS lookups associated with guessing
the host in command line startfile or 'g'oto strings, you will
get an HTAlert, since you're cancelling a guess, not the fetch
attempt, and the message tells you that the fetch attempt failed.
If the guessing completes and is successful, and a fetch is
initiated, an interrupt thereafter should not yield an HTAlert.

                                Fote

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