Re: [Lynx-dev] Strange behavior

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>> The only thing I have been able to find is if I do a -trace the
>> trace file shows a GETCH0 got 0xffffffff just before lynx closed
>> down.

> As Thorsten Glaser said, this is exactly how it would behave if it
> received a legitimate EOF.

Indeed.  And the suggestions are all good ones.  I just have three
minor remarks:

(1)

> (e.g.: changing stdio settings like vmin & vtime).

Minor nit: those are tty settings, not stdio settings.

(2)

> Essentially nothing about this has to do with Lynx,

We don't actually know that at present.  It could be that there is
something wrong in lynx that's making one piece of code think another
got an EOF from the tty when it actually didn't.  Unlikely, yes, but no
more so than some of the other theories given.

(3)

And, finally, are there any other ways of switching vtys?  Some systems
support software-initiated switching as well as keyboard-initiated
switching; I don't know Ubuntu (or for that matter any Linux) well
enough to know whether it does.  If so, it might be worth trying
switching other ways to see if it makes a difference.  (Of course, this
could be difficult to test unless you have another computer you can ssh
in from or some such.)

Basically, at this point we're still in the information-collection
phase, trying to probe the envelope of the problem to see if we can get
any hints as to where it might be.

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