[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils 1.4.16-8 (Test)

[Andrey Repin]

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...