/dev/clipboard pasting with small read() buffer

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Fri Aug 17 13:05:00 GMT 2012


On 17.08.2012 11:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> ...
>>   Anyway, my updated patch (using MB_LEN_MAX) proposes a change here as well.
> Thanks.  I dropped the hint that 4 is enough.  I'm not so sure about
> that.  Linux, for instance, defines MB_LEN_MAX as 16.
SunOS defines it as 5. 
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/MB_LEN_MAX.3.html 
says in glibc it is typically 6 (which would be needed for original 
UTF-8 covering 31-bit ISO-10646).

> Other than that, patch applied.
Thanks
Thomas



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