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Re: Crash in lynx


On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:07:08PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> > When wanting to have a look whether a new pcre was available at 
> > www.pcre.org, I had a slight case of fat fingers and made lynx crash :|
> > (cygcheck output below)
> > 
> > $ lynx www.pcre.orgf
> > *crash*
> > 
> > Some particularities about my current setup: sh-utils is built here (but I
> > don't think that matters), Cygwin is the one I checked out from CVS
> > yesterday at 1600 CET (that will probably matter) and aspell is installed 
> > (but I don't think that matters). The rest will show up on the cygcheck 
> > output.
> > 
> > Actually, the same thing happens if I just do `lynx www.pcre.org', so it's 
> > not the fat-fingers part that makes it so..
> 
> Hmm, the strace isn't very helpful, sorry.  There's actually no hint what
> happens.  It's a function inside Cygwin which crashes but I guess you'll
> have to debug that by yourself.
> 
> I tried the current lynx 2.8.4-5 in an ssh session, in rxvt and in a
> console window, both, the fat-fingered as well as the correct link. 
> No crash. 
> 
> Then I rebuilt lynx for 64 bit mode (already uploaded to cygwin.com) and
> tried all of the above again.  No crash.
> 
> Then I rebuilt the latest Cygwin from CVS and tried again.  Guess what?
> No crash.
I just installed the latest lynx - crash.

I'll update my CVS repo & try again. If I have time, I'll debug :)

rlc



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