Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:08:48 -0400 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <20030827155608.GA23637@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20030827155608.GA23637@redhat.com> Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:51:20AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: > >>$ ipconfig > /dev/clipboard >>$ ipconfig | cat > /dev/clipboard >> >>The first command does *nothing* to the content of the clipboard. The >>2nd command does what I expected the first command to do. > > > And is this a regression? Not really. I only recently started using /dev/clipboard. > I would be astonished if a non-cygwin program could understand a cygwin-specific device like /dev/clipboard. I was running this all from bash. Isn't it bash that sets up the it's i/o handles before forking the sub-process? So, theoretically, couldn't cygwin do something special if it is launching a non-cygwin app with cygwin-specific devices as it's i/o handles? -Rolf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/