Re: lynx-dev nsl-fork default

[Jason F. McBrayer]

>>>>> "PW" == Philip Webb <address@hidden> writes:

PW> given that we have to rely on a configure switch  --enable-nsl-fork 
PW> to stop a look-up with `z', why is the default disable?
PW> shouldn't it be enable?

Nsl-fork is a major resource hog under some situations, for example on
an overloaded freenet that uses lynx as the main user interface.  It's
also a performance problem on OS/2 because fork() is badly emulated by
EMX, but that's a relatively minor concern (I'll just remember to
configure with --disable-nsl-fork when I build binary distributions).

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