On 10/9/2021 10:29 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
On 07/10/2021 06:22, Mark Geisert wrote:
 > The cygutils package has two programs, putclip and getclip, that also
 > depend on the layout of the cygcb_t.  At present they have duplicate
 > defs of struct cygcb_t defined here as no Cygwin header provides it.

This struct should maybe be in sys/cygwin.h or similar, if it's expected to be used in user-space as well.

Good idea.

On 09/10/2021 15:19, Ken Brown wrote:
On 10/8/2021 5:52 AM, Takashi Yano wrote:
How about simply just:

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_clipboard.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_clipboard.cc
index ccdb295f3..d822f4fc4 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_clipboard.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_clipboard.cc
@@ -28,9 +28,10 @@ static const WCHAR *CYGWIN_NATIVE = L"CYGWIN_NATIVE_CLIPBOARD";
  typedef struct
  {
-  timestruc_t    timestamp;
-  size_t    len;
-  char        data[1];
+  uint64_t tv_sec;
+  uint64_t tv_nsec;
+  uint64_t len;
+  char data[1];
  } cygcb_t;

The only problem with this is that it might leave readers scratching their heads unless they look at the commit that introduced this.  What

I think the solution to that is a "comment" like "we don't use 'struct timespec' here as it's different size on different arches and that causes problem XYZ".

And the same for size_t.

Ken

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