Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails
Andrey Repin
anrdaemon@freemail.ru
Sat Apr 7 15:05:00 GMT 2012
Greetings, Christian Franke!
>>> Confirmed :-)
>> Yes, but...
>>
>> $ uname -vrs
>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.14s(0.260/5/3) 20120406 19:41:34
>> $ echo test1 | cat> /dev/clipboard
>> $ cat< /dev/clipboard
>> test1
>> $ getclip
>> [Garbage]test[Garbage]
>> ...
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> This is unrelated.
Unrelated, but notable.
It's worth checking if redirecting to /dev/clipboard actually clear the clipboard
before writing to it.
We've seen enough of it, when some application fills (f.e.) "text in unicode",
but leaves "text in ANSI" unchanged/undefined/in result - garbage.
> Apparently getclip is no longer compatible with current cygwin. The cygwin
> native clipboard format has changed. New format starts with a timestamp
> which is interpreted as data size by getclip.
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 07.04.2012, <18:54>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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