Re: lynx-dev Re: 2.8.1 fails under cron (with ncurses & nsl-fork)

[dickey]

> I just tried commenting out the code snippet at HTTCP.c:604 (I think that is 
> the only place inside the NSL_FORK ifdef where HTCheckForInterrupt is used), 
> but no joy ... still get exactly the same behavior when cron'd. 

there's a lot of places that gets called from - including most of the
network data I/O.
  
> | If -dump is set, neither ncurses nor slang should be initialized or 
> | exercised. 
>  
> Heh, yeah ... going a bit further, I think it's pretty strange that code 
> having anything to do with gethostbyname(), is coupled to the selection 
> of a screen-handling lib.  Especially since I don't really see any diff- 
> erence with nsl-fork enabled or not. 

the code that reads from the keyboard is a little different (but as I
noted, neither should be active at that point).
 
> Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, Tom ... 'twas worth a quick try ... 
I'll see if I can reproduce it (will try first on Linux, of course, but
FreeBSD's there...)
  
> /kim 


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