Re: lynx-dev connect_time patch

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > > It calls select() on the full FD_SETSIZE (255) fds. djgpp's select() 
> > > > > does
> > > > > loop over all fd's even only fd 0 is set in readfds (as it should do).
> > > >
> > > > that's true - I've not gotten around to changing it before, since I'm
> > > > puzzled whether it was done to accommodate some (perhaps now-obsolete)
> > > > variation of select() that required that.
> > >
> > > The same on Cygwin ? I at least noticed some things run very
> > > slow.
> >
> > perhaps (it's simple enough to change & prove whether it is a factor).
>
> And it crashed 3 times. I moved back to 2.8.5dev.14 and it
> doesn't. I don't know if it's a Cygwin bug.

Are we talking about the same thing?  GV's patch applied only to DJGPP.
I didn't make a change otherwise to select in dev.15 (I have a snapshot
patch towards dev.16 which makes the change indicated above).

I haven't updated my cygwin dll for a while (did not like the update
in September which made the console windows unusable).

>
> I attached what I got with drwtsn32.
>
> The Event log has
>
> Faulting application lynx.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module
> cygwin1.dll, version 1003.22.0.0, fault address 0x0004061f.
>
> The application, E:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\lynx.exe, generated an
> application error The error occurred on 04/30/2003 @
> 20:28:27.322 The exception generated was c0000005 at address
> 6104061F (cygwin1!mktime)
>
> The 3 crashes are identical. 0x0004061f, c0000005, and 6104061F
> (cygwin1!mktime).
>
>

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