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Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 04.01.2022 01:25, Mark Geisert wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Hi Mark,
> I see in both versions 32 and 64
> 
> Windows 10 version 21H1 build 19043.1415
> 
> $ cygcheck -c cygutils
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> cygutils             1.4.16-7       OK

I haven't been able to reproduce the issue with -7 or the more recent -8 test 
version.  I suppose you might try -8 and see if it helps.  Puzzling...

..mark

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