Andrew M. Bishop
Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:48:40 -0700
Rolf Leggewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think that there have been any reports of it working on > > Win95a. It has been tested on Win98, WinME & Win2000 and is known to > > work on them. > > http://www.rebirthing.co.nz/wwwoffle/ claims it runs on Win95, too. > > >> stops and nothing happens. WWWOffle displays the message > >> "wwwoffled[110865] Important: Child wwwoffles terminated by signal 11 > >> (pid=1908093)." That is all. The program displays the same behaviour > >> for all URLs. > > > > The "signal 11" means that the program is crashing due to a > > segmentation fault. > > Do I understand the term correctly as a problem relating to memory management > (two programs trying to access the same memory space) ? Strictly in the UNIX world it means that a program is accessing memory that is not allocated to it. I don't know what it really means on a single user operating system like Win95 that has little protection between programs. > Indeed, when I start > Windows while holding the shift key[1] and use ctrl-alt-del to kill all > processes not really necessary[2], WWWOffle runs on my system but still > quite unstable. I have fetched a few pages from another local proxy and > sometimes "signal 11" doesn't occur for a dozen or so pages. It does appear to be a memory problem then. > So my guess is that WWWOffle has problems in interacting and sharing the > memory with other programs at least under Windows. From my observations, it > appears that other Internet related programs (local newsserver Hamster, local > proxy Nearsite) are the most troublesome. But as I said, even on its own > with just a barebones Windows running, the program has problems, just a lot > less frequently. WWWOFFLE may have a problem, but then so does Win95 itself. Microsoft admit how unstable Win95/98 is when they have adverts for Win2000 that say it is 10 times more stable than Win95/98. > Can somebody please comment on the possibility that this is indeed a memory > related bug ? Thank you. Since the executable program is the same on Win95/98/2000/NT I suggest that it is the operating system that has the bug and not WWWOFFLE or the cygwin libraries. If you look at the cygwin web-pages you will see that they do not recommend Win95. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.6/user.html