RE: [Lynx-dev] lynx 2.8.5 crashing on Windows Server 2003

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, address@hidden wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, David Potter (Home) wrote:
> >
> > > I expected as much :-).  As far as I know I have the latest non-beta
> > > version (2.8.5).  I suppose I could try the beta version.
> >
> > That sounds like a good idea (there are 2-3 binaries for download which
> > should have 2.8.6dev.something in the version string).
>
> I tested 2.8.6dev.18 on Windows and found it was crashed.
> So I checked sources and found a bug in HTTP.c.
>
>   299           } else if (val == WAIT_OBJECT_0) {
>   300               if (GetExitCodeThread(hThread, &exitcode) == FALSE) {
>   301                   exitcode = -1;
>   302               }
>
> If GetExitCodeThread failed, exitcode is set as 0xFFFFFFFF.
> # exitcode is DWORD.

I see (now).  Looks like that DWORD (and related logic) has been there 
since 1999 (2.8.3dev.4).

thanks

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