Re: NSL_FORK [Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0]

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Janos Farkas wrote:

> Bela Lubkin writes:
> > integrated, or close to ready + under active development.  Currently, it
> > seems like 2.8 could integrate:
> 
> >   Porting changes:
> ..
> >     (NSL_FORK to be enabled where possible, by autoconf)
> 
> Apropos NSL_FORK.  It has an fd leak, since the parent process does
> not close the pipe to the client...  It only matters if someone lowers
> the per-process fd limit, otherwise few users will browse more than
> 200 docs.. :)  Sorry for no patches, I always leave them home...

Interesting.  I've actually noticed this behavior on HP-UX, and never
connected it to NSL_FORK.  After being in Lynx for sometime, I get an
error trying to connect to a host, and I can't connect to ANYWHERE.
Quitting and restarting will fix it.  I haven't tried on 2.7 yet (just got
the official release plus bugfixes compiled last night, even updated help
and man pages).

Can you give more details about the nature of the error?

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