Re: lynx-dev Spawning an external curses-based program

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:18:32PM -0700, Umar Qureshey wrote:
> Ok here's big clue (I think):  Instead of launching my ncurses-based app, I
> launched the ncurses.c test program and that seems to be working fine.  So,
> this means that whatever problem there is, it is internal to my app.  Does
> this make sense?
Lynx could simply be using too much memory.  Try turning this option off:

  -curses_pads      uses curses pad feature to support left/right shifting (on)

If it's not so simple, my approach would be to see if

        a) just the size of lynx + subprogram is a factor anyway (by modifying
           lynx to immediately spawn a subprogram from different points in
           the initialization)

        b) add some logic to the subprogram to check if stdout is closed, if
           it is able to write some sort of trace-file to show its state.

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