Hi, I'm reading my system documentation with dwww. However, with current potato/woody versions of dwww and file I have trouble for some files (i.e the web server hangs and reports a timeout)
Examples for "bad" files are http://localhost/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/doc/menu/html/ch3.html or http://localhost/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/doc/menu/html/ch6.html while http://localhost/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/doc/menu/html/ch2.html works fine. It seems, that the problem only occurs with longer (more than 10000 chars) files. Looking for the cause of this problem, I found that the line "$decompress $file | file -b - | magic2mime" in dwww-convert is responsible. Apparently the $decompress command (which is actually 'cat') is not finished when file has its job already done. I can find a 'dangling' cat process with 'ps'. So the pipe is not closed and the system would wait forever (actually just until the timeout is reached or cat is killed). I downloaded the source of the file package, but I don't know what I need to change. How are such pipe problems normally handled? Thanks, Ulf
