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Hi Marco,

Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I noticed, from time to time, that on recent Cygwin
> 
> $ uname -svr
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.3.3(0.341/5/3) 2021-12-03 16:35
> 
> there seems to be a "failed race (?)" using the clipboard
> 
> $ putclip < Announce_geos
> Unable to open the clipboard
> 
> $ putclip < Announce_geos
> 
> 
> Usually never happend two time in the row and it is a relative
> rare event. But I never had such issue in the past.
> 
> It is not caused by computer load, probably arised in
> the 3.3.x times but I could be wrong.

I'm assuming 64-bit Cygwin.  What is your cygutils version please?

..mark

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