Re: lynx-dev 2.8.1 fails under cron (with ncurses & nsl-fork)

[dickey]

> A few days ago, at my suggestion, one of our sysadmins upgraded lynx 
> from v2.8-rel.2 to v2.8.1-rel.1, on our FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE platforms. 
>  
> Immediately, some users who were running "lynx -dump" via cron, started 
> getting failures, using such simple cron'd shell scripts as: 
>  
>  #!/bin/sh 
>  
>  /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump http://www.sun.com/ >$HOME/tmp/lynx.out 

perhaps this is breaking because the HTCheckForInterrupt function is being
invoked (which it shouldn't be when the -dump option is set -- but perhaps
there's a hole in the logic).

If -dump is set, neither ncurses nor slang should be initialized or exercised.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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