LYNX-DEV http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month1297/msg00556.html

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>                 Re: LYNX-DEV NSL fork doesn't work on Linux?
>     * From: "T.E.Dickey" <address@hidden>
>>
>> I have the impression that NSL fork doesn't work on Linux - I cannot
>> interrupt the name lookup with "z", and ps doesn't show another process..
>> Try www.interinfo.cz for example. Or did I miss something?
>perhaps I did, or you - I'll doublecheck to see that it's turned on properly.
>But the notes that I read indicated (to me, anyway), that it doesn't work
>properly on some systems.
>
>(So I'll read closer to see what the code's doing - if it's using the output
>of 'ps', that isn't very portable, but can be made to work for a number of
>systems).
>
I have to say that the cygwin (Windows 95/NT using cygwin.dll) version of
lynx.exe doesn't seem to use the NSL fork well either, and the symptoms
listed above apply.  (BTW, ps.exe exists on cygwin, but cygwin uses some
kind of a split-stack arrangement to implement calls to fork().)

N. B.  The cygwin version of lynx is generated by a call to 

        ./configure --with-screen=slang --with-nsl-fork --with-libz

in a Dos window running the cygwin bash$ shell.