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Re: lynx-dev bug fix needs fixing
From: |
T.E.Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev bug fix needs fixing |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:08:37 -0400 (EDT) |
>
> I notice a patch has appeared in
> <http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/release2-8-2/patches/>, pointed to from
> <http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/release/>, a while ago.
>
> But by changing PERSISTENT_COOKIES to EXP_PERSISTENT_COOKIES in
> LYMain (two places), this patch provokes the cookiefile name corruption
> that was later fixed in the devel code. In other words, the patch
> introduces a new problem and cannot be recommended.
>
> The patch should be updated to also include the later correction that
> is in the devel code (use StrAllocCopy for LYCookieFile_flag in
> reload_read_cfg).
>
> The updated patch should also contain the change from my previous message
> ('passwords should not be saved').
I updated this - made a new "fix2" file and changed the older version to "fix".
(I'm about 2/3 through the dev.7 changes, which are rather tangled)
> Klaus
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