getclip and cygutils and cygcheck

[Jeremy Hetzler]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> What's that size?  I'm not aware of any size restriction in the current
> /dev/clipboard code.  Well, there's an allocation when writing to the
> clipboard, but it's only restricted by the size of the largest available
> memory block in the process VM, in theory.

After some testing, the limit seems to be 64k. It only happens when
reading data that was copied to the clipboard by a Windows program (in
this case Excel).

Steps:
- Open attached file in Excel
- Ctrl-a to select all, ctrl-c to copy to clipboard
- Then:

582 $ getclip >out.gc

583 $ cat /dev/clipboard >out.cat
cat: /dev/clipboard: Bad address

584 $ wc /dev/clipboard
wc: /dev/clipboard: Bad address
    400   13526   65536 /dev/clipboard

585 $ ls -la out*
-rw-r--r--+ 1 jhetzler Domain Users 65536 Jun 14 23:03 out.cat
-rw-r--r--+ 1 jhetzler Domain Users 73922 Jun 14 23:03 out.gc

This is 1.7.20 on 64-bit Windows 7 and Excel 2013.

Does that help?

Yours,
Jeremy Hetzler
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