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Re: LYNX-DEV http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month1297/msg00556.html
From: |
T.E.Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month1297/msg00556.html |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Dec 1997 19:14:56 -0500 (EST) |
> I have to say that the cygwin (Windows 95/NT using cygwin.dll) version of
> lynx.exe doesn't seem to use the NSL fork well either, and the symptoms
> listed above apply. (BTW, ps.exe exists on cygwin, but cygwin uses some
> kind of a split-stack arrangement to implement calls to fork().)
I looked at the cygwin stuff a couple of months ago - there's some holes
in it (non-working fcntl, killpg) that tend to make life interesting for
all but trivial programs. I can wait for the next beta, but you're welcome
to debug it.
> N. B. The cygwin version of lynx is generated by a call to
>
> ./configure --with-screen=slang --with-nsl-fork --with-libz
>
> in a Dos window running the cygwin bash$ shell.
>
>
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