LYNX-DEV Re:NSL_FORK problem

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Hiram Lester, Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Well, it appears that interruptable name support no longer works like it
> > did before in recent fotemods.  I noticed some changes recently to name
> > lookup guessing stuff, so this may be the problem.  When I try entering
> > something like:
> > 
> > http://www.domain.com/
> > 
> > I can interrupt fine.  When I enter this as just:
> > 
> > www.domain.com
> > 
> > I USED to be able to interrupt it unless it started guessing, and now it
> > seems that it doesn't interrupt at all.  Any ideas?
> 
> How do you *prevent* it from guessing in such a case?

I wasn't trying to keep it from guessing.  The reason I mentioned guessing
is that I know that guessing isn't interruptable.  I've always been able
to interrupt it in the very first stage before it begins guessing in
earnest, and now I don't see to be able to do so.  I thought that maybe
some of the recent mods could have broken something.  The only mod I see
that would seem vaguely related would be the 8/5 mods of the NSL_FORK
code, but I wouldn't think that would cause a problem... sigh...

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