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Jon Turney wrote:
> 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 

I did notice that doc when I was updating getclip and putclip.  I wondered why 
that conversion didn't seem to be happening in the testcases and whether that was 
a Windows change over time.  I had no answer.

What surprised me about the segfault was that GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT) was 
returning zero, the error indication, but a subsequent GetLastError() returned 
zero as well, so no specific error.

..mark

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