On Jun 28 00:16, Thomas Wolff wrote:
If the clipboard contains large data, the contents retrieved from
/dev/clipboard gets corrupted.
I compared the following in a few cases:
* cat /dev/clipboard or cp /dev/clipboard (which are equal)
* mouse-paste into mintty, read with cat
* read /dev/clipboard within application
and I found all three results to be different, the correct one
sometimes being cat /dev/clipboard but not always.
In today's case, the differences occured at byte 10240 and 65536
respectively, thus 10K-1 bytes or 64K-1 bytes being equal.
I can't reprocude this. There's also nothing in the /dev/clipboard
code which would rely on a 10K buffer or so. 64K, yes. But still,
I tried with wordpad, vi, mintty, cat, and cp with a text file of
about 90K. No problems. Do you have any reproducible testcase?