On Jun 28 20:33, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 28.06.2012 10:20, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >On Jun 28 00:16, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>If the clipboard contains large data, the contents retrieved from > >>/dev/clipboard gets corrupted. > >>I compared the following in a few cases: > >>* cat /dev/clipboard or cp /dev/clipboard (which are equal) > >>* mouse-paste into mintty, read with cat > >>* read /dev/clipboard within application > >> > >>and I found all three results to be different, the correct one > >>sometimes being cat /dev/clipboard but not always. > >>In today's case, the differences occured at byte 10240 and 65536 > >>respectively, thus 10K-1 bytes or 64K-1 bytes being equal. > >I can't reprocude this. There's also nothing in the /dev/clipboard > >code which would rely on a 10K buffer or so. 64K, yes. But still, > >I tried with wordpad, vi, mintty, cat, and cp with a text file of > >about 90K. No problems. Do you have any reproducible testcase? > Not really reproducible (maybe later) but some more observations. > I made a small test program to read /dev/clipboard directly with > different buffer sizes.
You know, we just love STCs. Send you small test program here, plus a short instruction how you created the clipboard content and how to call the testcase to see the problem. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
