Greetings, Jon Turney! > On 21/11/2021 10:36, Mark Geisert wrote: >> Hi Denis, >> >> Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>>> On 2021-11-03 10:59, Mark Geisert wrote: >>>> >>>> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: >>>> >>>> * cygutils-1.4.16-8 >>>> * cygutils-extra-1.4.16-8 >>>> * cygutils-x11-1.4.16-8 >>> >>> >>> The '-u' or '-d' option of getclip does not seem to work properly >>> under xterm. >>> How to reproduce: >>> 1) Open an xterm >>> 2) Select a simple piece of text (with no line ending) >>> 3) getclip -u >>> 4) Observe 'Segmentation fault(core dumped)' >>> >>> If step 2 is replaced by ‘printf AAAA | putclip', no error. >>> If step 3 is replaced by ‘getclip’, no error. >>> >>> I can’t tell whether this is new or not. >> >> It appears to be old. An xterm selection is placed on the Windows >> clipboard in CF_UNICODETEXT format. 'getclip' can deal with this, >> 'getclip -u' and 'getclip -d' cannot; they always request CF_TEXT (i.e., >> ANSI) format and assume they get a buffer of data. But the formats >> don't match and there's no data supplied. That's why the segfault occurs.
> Odd... I think that Windows should convert CF_UNICODETEXT to CF_TEXT if > needed > See > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/dataxchg/clipboard-formats#synthesized-clipboard-formats It could convert to UNICODE, but the reverse would be lossy. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, November 22, 2021 10:07:50 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
