X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F7F40C1.7030004@t-online.de> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:15:13 +0200 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Firefox/10.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Cygwin 1.7.13 regression: Inheritance of /dev/clipboard filedesc fails Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 The inheritance of a /dev/clipboard filedesc through fork() fails in 1.7.13. Last working snapshot was 2012-03-30. Access to /dev/clipboard itself works as expected. Testcase: $ uname -vrs CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.12s(0.260/5/3) 20120330 12:20:36 $ echo test1 | cat > /dev/clipboard $ cat < /dev/clipboard test1 $ uname -vrs CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.13(0.260/5/3) 2012-04-05 12:43 $ echo test2 | cat > /dev/clipboard cat: standard output: Bad file descriptor $ cat < /dev/clipboard cat: failed to reopen `stdin' with mode `rb': Bad file descriptor $ cat /dev/clipboard test1 $ echo test3 > /dev/clipboard $ cat /dev/clipboard test3 Christian -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple