Re: lynx-dev 2.8.2rel.1 crash

[T.E.Dickey]

> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Doug Kaufman wrote: 
>  
> > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Andrew Pimlott wrote: 
> >  
> > > % lynx http://www.itso.iu.edu/alerts/ 
> > >  
> > > A Fatal error has occurred in Lynx Ver. 2.8.2rel.1 
> >  
> > I can confirm this with 2.8.2dev.19 on SunOS 4.1.3_U1. I downloaded 
> > the file via wget. It appears to be a unix format file with embedded 
> > tables having only Macintosh format EOLs (i.e. 0x0d without 0x0a). 
> > For example, line 35 of the file has over 2500 characters, with 19 
> > "^M" in the line (reading in binary mode with vim). I suspect a 
> > buffer overflow, but I'll have to leave the investigation to more 
> > knowledgeable members of the list. 
>  
> That shouldn't play a role here - lines delimited with CR only are 
> not that uncommon.  Normally lynx deals with them fine. 

I think it's (just) the USEMAP problem.  (I did get a copy of the page to
play locally with ElectricFence, in case there are other problems, but my
copy of 2.8.3dev.3 works fine).

-- I'm back working on the dev.5 patch (most of the past week has gone into
either patches for xterm or installing a copy of Solaris7).

>  
>     Klaus 


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