LYNX-DEV SIGIOT in lynx 2.7.1

[Ambrose Li]

This probably is old news :-(

lynx 2.7.1 dumped core after I input the Subject line to a newspost
URL. The core file seems to indicate that the problem occured in the
wborder() function.

The system is i386 linux 2.0.31, libc 5.4.33, ld.so 1.8.9.

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$ lynx newspost://cnews.corel.com/corel.support.draw5
[full-screen stuff happens]
A Fatal error has occurred in Lynx Ver. 2.7.1
[...]

Lynx now exiting with signal:  11

IOT trap/Abort
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GDB 4.16 (i586-unknown-linux), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
(no debugging symbols found)...
Core was generated by `lynx newspost://cnews.corel.com/corel.support.draw5'.
Program terminated with signal 6, IOT trap/Abort.
Reading symbols from /lib/libncurses.so.3.0...(no debugging symbols 
found)...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
#0  0x80d1761 in kill ()
(gdb) info stack
#0  0x80d1761 in kill ()
#1  0x80df942 in _fxstat ()
#2  0x80c149b in abort ()
#3  0x8058a02 in wborder ()
#4  0xbfffdb24 in ?? ()
#5  0x809bcde in wborder ()
#6  0x8070875 in wborder ()
#7  0x80a5ab3 in wborder ()
#8  0x808a915 in wborder ()
#9  0x808abdf in wborder ()
#10 0x808afaf in wborder ()
#11 0x8054be9 in wborder ()
#12 0x8059258 in wborder ()
#13 0x8057211 in wborder ()
#14 0x8048fbe in wborder ()
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