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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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