Re: lynx-dev Lynx returns error 11 when called from cgi

[Faith Zack]

Bela Lubkin wrote:
> In fact, I recently submitted a fix to a problem that would have caused
> name lookups to fail if stdin was a device which could not be select()ed
> -- a likely scenario in the CGI environment.
> 
> Faith, what version of Lynx is it?  My fix was within the last month, I
> think post-2.8.1.  It should be in the current patches archive,
> 
>   ftp://sol.slcc.edu/pub/lynx/release2-8-1/patches
> 
> and is definitely in the current ongoing development code,
> 
>   ftp://sol.slcc.edu/pub/lynx/current
> 
> >Bela<
This could be the problem.  We are at version 2.4.2,
so I will try upgrading to 2.8.1.  There are also
problems related to cgi's home directory being /,
(can't find the mime.types file, for example)
so I will set up a -cfg file to work around these.
-- 
faith