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Re: getclip and cygutils and cygcheck


On Jun 17 14:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 17 12:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun 14 23:15, Jeremy Hetzler wrote:
> > > After some testing, the limit seems to be 64k. It only happens when
> > > reading data that was copied to the clipboard by a Windows program (in
> > > this case Excel).
> > > [...]
> > > 583 $ cat /dev/clipboard >out.cat
> > > cat: /dev/clipboard: Bad address
> > > [...]
> > > Does that help?
> > 
> > Yes, thank you.  There was an ill-conceived check for the last character
> > in the buffer being a high surrogate UTF-16 character.  It worked only
> > if the clipboard content was small enough to fit into a single read of
> > the application.  If it was too big, and the application had to call
> > read again to fetch more from the clipboard, it tried to read the
> > character beyond the array boundary.  I fixed that in CVS.  I'll probably
> > create a new developer snapshot and a 64 bit test version later today.
> 
> FYI, I'm just uploading a new developer snapshot 2013-06-17 to
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/, as well as a new 64 bit Cygwin test
> release 1.7.21-4.  Please give one of them a try.

Guys?  Ping?  Any testers?


Corinna

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