On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 04:47, Wayne Haigh wrote:
> Windows Crash - CURL bug..?
>
> When executing the following command, on Windows XP
> with SP1 :
>
> curl ftp://ftp4.nero.com/nero551054.exe
>
> I accidentally omitted the -O switch to download the
> binary file. This caused the return data to be output
> to the screen (as expected).
>
> Trying to stop the display by closing the window or
> with task manager was not possible. All attempts to
> stop the task failed (even unplugging the network
> connection).
>
> I can re-produce this every time (with different sites
> and files, not just the one above) and the only
> solution is to re-boot the machine.
>
> Have I found a bug..? or missing something in my
> set-up..?
>
> Thanks
>
> WH
>
> P.S. - using curl 7.10.7 no-ssl version. Windows
> binary
>
>
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Messy yes ... but if you terminate both curl.exe and the cmd.exe that
you were using you can generally get it to stop, without having to
reboot.

Chris

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Received on 2003-10-28