Re: lynx-dev Lynx segfault while using image viewers

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:31:27AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> i have been using  xv  to view images with Lynx as defined in  .mailcap .
> today, i tried  kview  instead, which is a KDE application & a bit better.
> 
> occasionally in the past, Lynx has collapsed with a segfault message
> when trying to activate  xv  to present an image;
> as it wasn't reproducible, i picked up the bits & ignored it.
> however, while  kview  seems generally to work very well with Lynx,
> i have had a couple of cases of images causing segfaults
> & one -- today's Doonesbury cartoon in the Yahoo Reuter news site:
>  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cx/uc/20010101/db/db020101l.html?u  -- ,
> which has repeated, 1st time with a segfault, 2nd with this message:

for instance (attached)
 
Lynx Version 2.8.5dev.5 (18 Nov 2001)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.5a
Built on linux-gnu Dec 28 2001 12:17:37

Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information.

See http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/ for information about SSL for Lynx.
See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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