Re: /dev/clipboard corrupted

[Gregg Levine <gregg dot drwho8 at gmail dot com>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen <> wrote:
> On Jul 21 00:14, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 19.07.2012 11:41, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>> >On Jul  9 01:15, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> >>Am 04.07.2012 10:15, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>> >>>On Jul  3 18:29, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> >>>>...
>> >>>>* The current (CVS) code will not work if even the first character
>> >>>>to be converted
>> >>>>    needs more bytes than the buffer provides, e.g. if the
>> >>>>application calls read() with length 1 only.
>> >>>>    Some extra buffering would be needed to make it work then.
>> >>>Yes, indeed.  I'll have a look.
>> >>...
>> >>>No, not yet.  This isn't exactly a regression from former behaviour.
>> >>>Please provide a patch or remind me in a few weeks again.
>> >>About the buffering I may send a patch when I find time.
>> (Gave it a short try but no success yet.)
>> >>>>* I had previously observed that with a read size of n only n-1
>> >>>>bytes would be delivered
>> >>>>    and thought this was on purpose because wcstombs appends a final
>> >>>>nul to its result.
>> >>>>    Now n bytes are returned (if available) and in fact the byte
>> >>>>behind the read() buffer is
>> >>>>    overwritten (see modified test program).
>> >>>It's not Cygwin overwriting the byte, your testcase is...
>> >>Both were, actually...
>> >>>>...
>> >>>>          n = read (fd, filebuf, filebuflen);
>> >>>>          if (out_tty) {
>> >>>>                  filebuf [n] = 0;
>> >>>Hmm, what if n == filebuflen?
>> >>I admit my test case was bogus in this respect *BLUSH*.
>> >>However, yet the error is there, as a fixed test case reveals.
>> >>Also your own testcase does print out "OVERWRITTEN".
>> >I don't see this.  I use the same "Scoloplos" testcase and my
>> >code does not print "OVERWRITTEN".
>> Beware that for the test case, you need to do a Windows paste; cp
>> testfile /dev/clipboard will not do because you would take the
>> "CYGWIN_NATIVE" branch then. Copy from notepad or mouse-copy from
>> mintty will do.
>
> No, it doesn't.  The clipboard was filled with Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C from
> within notepad.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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> Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
> Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Red Hat

Hello!
Group I just might be materializing into this discussion without all
of the facts, but every time I've used the clipboard functions to
paste something into a terminal window, such as the storage point for
a project via Google Code, it just worked.

Meaning that I first created a directory for the stuff, changed into
it, and then pasted the location for its code and then watched as it
retrieved the code from that hosting entity. So far this has worked
twice for me. And incidentally Corinna this was all done before your
timely update was announced and is now being retrieved. (Thank you for
that one.)

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