[PATCH] Cygwin: Make native clipboard layout same for 32- and 64-bit
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sat Oct 9 14:43:45 GMT 2021
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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