On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:29:49AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > The lynx port uses pledge(7) to disallow certain operations, including > spawning another process. If those operations are attempted anyway, > it *is* supposed to crash.
Okay, makes sense, I just wasn't sure if it was supposed to hard abort like that. I should have read up on pledge beforehand. > It would be a little nicer if the operation just failed rather than > crashing the process, however the end result would still be "can't > do what you want", so the simplest way to do that is to avoid setting > DOWNLOADER: to open the file. Yeah, I just noticed it because I still had DOWNLOADER set in my lynx.cfg which I copied over from a Linux system, but I think I'll just use URL opening in my terminal emulator for those features. - lumidify
