Please try newest snapshot (was Re: emacs-x11: new clipboard size limitation?)

[Markus Hoenicka]

At 2013-12-10 21:40 quoth Jon TURNEY:
> On 04/12/2013 22:14, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>> Around 2013-12-04 16:59 Jon TURNEY was heard to say:
>>> On 04/12/2013 08:09, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>>>> Am 2013-12-03 22:10, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
>>>>> I added an ugly hack to work around this symptom in the latest 
>>>>> cygwin.
>>>>> It shouldn't have any big impact on anything but this particular
>>>>> scenario but I would appreciate it if people downloaded today's 
>>>>> snapshot
>>>>> and verified that things are still working ok.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I plan on addressing the actual problem for Cygwin 1.7.28.
>>>> 
>>>> the nightly snapshot does not seem to do me any good with regard to 
>>>> the
>>>> clipboard problem. I performed the following test, and I hope this 
>>>> is what you
>>>> had in mind:
>>> 
>>> There is also a bug in xwinclip which needs fixing for this test to 
>>> work
>>> reliably, but it was difficult to see what that was without this fix 
>>> in the
>>> cygwin DLL.
>> 
>> I see. Let me know whenever it makes sense to do any further testing.
> 
> I just uploaded X server 1.14.4-2, which should have this fixed.
> 
> (With cygwin DLL prior to the nightly snapshot of 2013-12-04, you may 
> see
> "Spurious wake" recorded in XWin's log, but pasting should still work 
> correctly)
> 

I'm away from my Windows box at work, but I'll make sure to test your 
new version when I'll be back early next week.

regards,
Markus

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