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rxvt - copy/paste fails when stderr redirected under cygwin-1.5.3
- From: Andrew McRae <andrew dot mcrae at telegraph dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:56:41 +0100
- Subject: rxvt - copy/paste fails when stderr redirected under cygwin-1.5.3
This would be a low-priority bug, I'm sure, but it seems weird enough to
report.
I'm running rxvt-2.7.10-3 (with no X server). Normally, selecting text
copies the text to the Windows clipboard, and middle-clicking pastes
from the Windows clipboard.
Since upgrading to the new cygwin-1.5.3, rxvt fails to communicate with
the Windows clipboard when it is launched with standard error redirected
(whether to a file, to /dev/null, or to "nul" under Windows).
That is, if I launch rxvt like this:
bash$ rxvt 2>/dev/null
or
bash$ rxvt 2>rxvt.out
or
C:\> rxvt 2>nul
or
C:\> rxvt 2>rxvt.out
then text selected in rxvt cannot be pasted into Windows applications,
and middle-clicking in rxvt pastes the last rxvt selection, not the
current contents of the Windows clipboard. Copying/pasting within an
rxvt instance or between rxvt instances still works normally.
Redirecting other file descriptors appears to have no effect; it's only
stderr that shows this problem. Running rxvt with various X servers
still works as it always has (that is, copying/pasting to Windows works
if and only if the X server supports it).
I noticed this because I usually launch rxvt with its
stdin/stdout/stderr redirected, via shortcuts on the taskbar, and when I
upgraded Cygwin, my new rxvt instances all started showing this problem.
Output of "cygcheck -r -s -v" is attached.
Regards,
Andrew.
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri Sep 05 11:27:34 2003
Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4
Path: C:\WINNT\system32
C:\WINNT
C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
C:\home\andrew\bin
C:\cygwin\bin
C:\WINNT\system32
C:\WINNT
C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
UID: 1002(andrew) GID: 513(None)
513(None)
Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
UID: 1002(andrew) GID: 513(None)
513(None) 544(Administrators)
545(Users)
SysDir: C:\WINNT\system32
WinDir: C:\WINNT
CYGWIN = `binmode ntsec notty'
HOME = `C:\home\andrew'
Path = `C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\home\andrew\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem'
ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users'
APPDATA = `C:\Documents and Settings\andrew\Application Data'
CommonProgramFiles = `C:\Program Files\Common Files'
COMPUTERNAME = `VLAN4025'
ComSpec = `C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe'
HOMEDRIVE = `C:'
HOMEPATH = `\'
LOGONSERVER = `\\VLAN4025'
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = `1'
OS = `Windows_NT'
Os2LibPath = `C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;'
PATHEXT = `.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH'
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = `x86'
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = `x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel'
PROCESSOR_LEVEL = `15'
PROCESSOR_REVISION = `0207'
ProgramFiles = `C:\Program Files'
PROMPT = `$P$G'
SystemDrive = `C:'
SystemRoot = `C:\WINNT'
TEMP = `C:\DOCUME~1\andrew\LOCALS~1\Temp'
TMP = `C:\DOCUME~1\andrew\LOCALS~1\Temp'
USERDOMAIN = `VLAN4025'
USERNAME = `andrew'
USERPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\andrew'
windir = `C:\WINNT'
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
(default) = `/'
cygdrive flags = 0x0000002a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/
(default) = `C:\cygwin'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/home
(default) = `C:\home'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin
(default) = `C:\cygwin/bin'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib
(default) = `C:\cygwin/lib'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
(default) = `C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
a: fd N/A N/A
c: hd NTFS 38154Mb 23% CP CS UN PA FC
d: cd N/A N/A
C:\cygwin / system binmode
C:\home /home system binmode
C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode
C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts system binmode
. / system binmode,cygdrive
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
Not Found: gdb
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe
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"cyggettextsrc-0-12-1.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/10 23:10
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"cyghistory4.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/7 4:34
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"cyghistory5.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/11 0:16
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"cyghttpd.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/4/27 14:23
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Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.5.3
DLL epoch: 19
DLL bad signal mask: 19005
DLL old termios: 5
DLL malloc env: 28
API major: 0
API minor: 90
Shared data: 3
DLL identifier: cygwin1
Mount registry: 2
Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
Program options name: Program Options
Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
Cygdrive default prefix:
Build date: Mon Sep 1 13:15:28 EDT 2003
Shared id: cygwin1S3
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Last downloaded files to: C:\cygwin-src
Last downloaded files from: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin
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