Re: lynx-dev "display partial" implementation in 'links'

[Mikulas Patocka]

> > > Relying on threads of course means it can never be as portable as lynx.
> > > Forget about a DOS port, a VMS port, ...
> >
> >   It uses fork-and-pipe method for simulating threads. Is this method
> > unavailable on VMS?
>
> yes.

Links doesn't use threads. It's based completely on select(). It forks (on
Unix) or spawns thread (on OS/2) only when it needs to do lookup (can be
avoided with option -async-lookup 0) or when it spawned some user viewer
and needs to wait() for it. fork/thread routines are very simple, they
don't touch any global variables and thus the same routine can be run from
a fork()ed child or a thread. 

Mikulas