clipboard details

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Mar 26 10:15:00 GMT 2012


On Mar 25 00:28, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 2 comments about accessing the Windows clipboard:
> 
> * Does the Windows clipboard maintain a timestamp? If so, it would
> be useful to propagate it to /dev/clipboard as its virtual last
> modification time.

It doesn't.  The clipboard only supports a sequence number.  It
would be possible to convert that to a virtual modification timestamp,
but it's tricky.  I have an idea how to do it, but I have to test it.


Corinna

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