Re: kernel development environment

[Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org>]

Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
>> diff foo bar | xclip works perfectly with my mailer and does not
>> require a temporary file.
> 
> 
> Pasting from xclip to Mozilla Thunderbird works for me IFF the selection 
> is 4096 bytes or less. But it looks like a bug in xclip, not Mozilla. 
> Try this:
> 
> $ (for i in `seq 1 4096`; do echo -n 'a'; done) | xclip
> $ xclip -o
> aaaaaaaaaaaa......aaa
> 
> $ (for i in `seq 1 4097`; do echo -n 'a'; done) | xclip
> $ xclip -o
> [hangs]
> 
> This is with SuSE 8.2 and xclip from a Debian package 
> xclip_0.08-4_i386.deb .

I've done some work on xclip in Debian so I thought to test it. It 
doesn't happen to me on my Debian testing with xclip 0.08-4

After 4k of transfers the clipboard protocol means sending multiple 
messages, I've did some fixes in that area a while ago and didn't hear 
of any problems in that area.

I'd be happy to hear of such problems, directly or in the Debian BTS.

Baruch