Re: LYNX-DEV nytimes (core dump problem fixed!)

[Glenn E. Thobe]

Paul-

Good news!  I fixed the core dumping problem on SunOS 4.1.3 by installing 
just gethostbyname.o from the jumbo libc patch.  I didn't use your 
workaround.  Recall that the problem occurs when accessing certain URLs.

I extracted gethostbyname.o (actually, I extracted all of gethostent.o, 
gethostid.o, gethostname.o, sethostname.o) from the international jumbo 
libc patch 100891-13 for SunOS 4.1.3.  4.1.3_U1 has a separate international
jumbo libc patch 101558-09.  The patches can be gotten from the following
and mirror sites around the world.

<LI><a href="ftp://sunsolve1.Sun.COM/pub/patches/patches.html";>Public Patch Gate

I relinked lynx 2.7 using the extracted objects and did nothing else.

I have a suspicion that cookies may be the critical ingredient since both 
offending Web sites have them.  The two URLs were http://www.nytimes.com/ 
and http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html.

-Glenn Thobe <address@hidden>

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