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Re: [1.7.27] cannot redirect output to /dev/clipboard: "write error: Permission denied"


On 1/7/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan  7 00:29, Jeremy Hetzler wrote:
I am getting errors when using bash redirect syntax to write to
/dev/clipboard. Reading works ok.

# this does not work
$ echo "foo bar" >file.txt

$ cat file.txt >/dev/clipboard
cat: write error: Permission denied

That's supposed to be fixed in CVS since 2013-12-10.  Try a recent
snapshot.

I just saw this, too, and the 20140105 snapshot fixes it for me.

I tested on both x86 and x86_64, Windows 8.1.

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