[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: cygutils 1.4.16-4 (TEST)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 23 19:48, Christian Franke wrote:
> Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 16:28:42 -0700
> > Mark Geisert wrote:
> > > Hi Takashi,
> > > 
> > > Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > However, I encountered a problem with putclip.
> > > > Run 'echo AAAAAAAA | putclip' and paste clipboard to notepad.exe.
> > > > Pasted string is garbled in my environment.
> > > > 
> > > > What am I wrong with?
> > > s/am I/are we/ :-\  I can reproduce this.  No idea what's wrong as there were no
> > > recent changes to putclip.  Let me dig further.  Is this something you've done
> > > routinely in the past and it was known to work?
> > No. But I confirmed that this issue does not happen with 1.4.16-2.
> > 1.4.16-3 and 1.4.16-4(TEST) have this problem.
> 
> The problem is the putclip addition in file "cygutils-1.4.16-4.src.patch"
> from the src package.
> 
> It adds "SetClipboardData (CF_UNICODETEXT, hData)" but the data is not in 16
> bit unicode format. Removing this new section fixes the problem.
> 
> Another unrelated issue: GlobalFree() should possibly not be called on
> handles passed to clipboard. See comment in "fhandler_clipboard.cc" from
> Cygwin source.
> 
> BTW: The cygdrop crash does no longer occur.
> 
> BTW^2: Is there a new public repo for cygutils?
> The old one ends at 1.4.16-2:
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-apps/cygutils.git;a=summary

Theoretically the idea was that this is the official repo for
this tool.  Mark, please keep it up.


Thanks,
Corinna