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Re: copy/paste in win9x (was re: oustanding issues..)
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- Subject: Re: copy/paste in win9x (was re: oustanding issues..)
- From: "matt" <matt at use dot net>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:45:37 -0800
damnit, screwed up again. strace logs are attached.
> > Your analysis is correct. I can't copy->paste from windows->cygwin, or
> > cygwin->cygwin on win98. This is using the 1.1.8-2 package.
>
> Test case is:
> 1. run command.com inside win98
> 2. cd \cygwin\bin
> 3. strace -f -ocyg.out bash
> 4. copy some text in notepad or elsewhere
> 5. in the (now) bash window, click the 'paste' button, or
> alt+space-->edit-->paste.
> --
> 6. if bash window locks up, open another command prompt
> 7. cd\cygwin\bin, use ps to find the hung bash's PID
> 8. try 'kill'ing the hung bash's PID
> 9. if that doesn't kill it, try 'kill -9'
>
> results:
> 1.1.8: appears to do nothing. strace log attached.
> 1.1.7: same behaviour as 1.1.8
> 1.1.6: locks up(!) most of the time. strace log attached. tried to kill,
> didn't work; kill -9 did kill it. Once it died, text I was trying to paste
> dumped into the (now) DOS prompt.
>
> I can try older DLLs if anyone can point me to an ftp site.
>
cygwin-1.1.6.out
cygwin-1.1.8.out
cygwin-1.1.6-killed.out