Please try newest snapshot (was Re: emacs-x11: new clipboard size limitation?)

[Markus Hoenicka]

Am 2013-12-03 22:10, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:56:27PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> Tried bisecting through the X server versions for the past 6 months, 
>> and it
>> seems that this problem first appears in X server 1.14.3-2
>> 
>> (As an aside, it's probably relevant to the recent discussion, that I 
>> can't
>> find the thread for, about how many previous versions we should keep 
>> around
>> that it's not possible to do this bisection without 'Secret Knowledge' 
>> at the
>> moment)
>> 
>> This does contain a few clipboard changes, and in particular it 
>> changes the
>> way the messages get processed so we will return to the select() more 
>> often
>> (after each stage of the conversion operation), which it looks like it 
>> could
>> be incorrect sometimes, but I'd expect this to cause unneeded blocking
>> (waiting in select() for a message which has already been placed on 
>> the event
>> queue by XPending() rather than the observed behaviour.
>> 
>> Anyhow, I guess I need to look at this some more...
>> 
>>> Talking about wndproc.c, it only checks iReturn for being < 0.  After
>>> that, we don't really know which value it has, we only know that
>>> FD_ISSET(iConnNumber, &fdsRead) returns 0.  The value of iReturn 
>>> should
>>> be printed in the debug output at line 133.
>> 
>> It's 0 when I inspect it with the debugger, but yes, I'll change that.
>> 
>>> What kind of object is the iConnNumber descriptor?  Pipe?  Fifo?
>>> Socket?  /dev/windows?  We really need a simple testcase without the
>>> X and emacs overhead...
>> 
>> It's a socket connected to the X server.
> 
> I added an ugly hack to work around this symptom in the latest cygwin.
> It shouldn't have any big impact on anything but this particular
> scenario but I would appreciate it if people downloaded today's 
> snapshot
> and verified that things are still working ok.
> 
> I plan on addressing the actual problem for Cygwin 1.7.28.
> 

Hi,

the nightly snapshot does not seem to do me any good with regard to the 
clipboard problem. I performed the following test, and I hope this is 
what you had in mind:

- make sure all Cygwin processes have terminated
- rename /bin/cygwin1.dll to /bin/cygwin1.dll.backup
- copy the nightly snapshot of 2013-12-04 to /bin and rename it 
cygwin1.dll
- rename /bin/XWin.exe (the test version mentioned by Jon) to 
/bin/XWin.exe.test
- rename /bin/XWin.exe.backup (the stock version that came with my last 
update) to /bin/XWin.exe

A quick test shows that trying to copy approx. two printed pages worth 
of ASCII text from an Emacs buffer to LibreOffice Writer still triggers 
the clipboard failure.

If I revert the changes above, i.e. reactivate the stock cygwin1.dll 
(1.7.25) and Jon's XWin test version, the clipboard works again.

regards,
Markus




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