- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:12:26 +0100
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
> From: jose.kahan@imag.fr [SMTP:jose.kahan@imag.fr] > > Amaya has a Stop button feature. However, when trying to resolve a > name (e.g., for converting www.w3.org to an IP address), we have > to make a blocking system call. There's no way to get back the hand > until that system call returns. I think that this is what happened to you. > This is a known problem, not related to Amaya, and also exists under Unix. > The Lynx browser runs the name server lookup in a sub- process, although I think this can be disabled.
Received on Monday, 6 September 1999 14:14:26 UTC