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LYNX-DEV Re:NSL_FORK problem
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Hiram Lester, Jr. |
Subject: |
LYNX-DEV Re:NSL_FORK problem |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:13:00 -0500 (CDT) |
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
> You can't block the first guess in LYUtils.c. Your 'z'ap will be
> detected when that gethostbyname() call times out, and similarly for any
> subsequent guesses. If the gethostbyname() call succeeds, the 'z'ap will
> be detected in HTTCP.c, and that was changed to re-issue an un-'z'appable
> gethostbyname() call if some ill-understood foul up occurs in the child of
> the 'z'appable fork. Perhaps some funny interaction is occurring due
> to that change, but it seemed to all work OK when I tried it on Scott's
> SPARC and an osf guest account I got recently.
It could just have been just my bad luck, but for consistency's sake, I
tried this on snake-slang, linux-slang, and linux-ncurses targets with
identical results.
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