Re: lynx-dev bug fix needs fixing

[Leonid Pauzner]

24-Aug-99 21:08 T.E.Dickey wrote:
>>
>> 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".

By this fix2 you revert EXP_PERSISTENT_COOKIES to PERSISTENT_COOKIES
so the discussed _flag became irrelevant at all - just ignored.

> (I'm about 2/3 through the dev.7 changes, which are rather tangled)

>>    Klaus


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