Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Make native clipboard layout same for 32- and 64-bit

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Oct 11 08:11, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/11/2021 2:13 AM, Mark Geisert wrote:
> > It's just that after submitting the patch I realized that, if we really
> > are going to support both Cygwin archs (x86_64 and i686), there is still
> > the issue of different cygcb_t layouts between Cygwin versions being
> > ignored.
> > 
> > Specifically, the fhandler_clipboard::fstat routine can't tell which
> > Cygwin environment has set the clipboard contents.  My original patch
> > takes care of 32-bit and 64-bit, providing both are running Cygwin >=
> > 3.3.0 (presumably).  What if it was a different version (pre 3.3.0) that
> > set the contents?
> 
> I wonder if this is worth the trouble.  Right now we have a problem in which
> data written to /dev/clipboard in one arch can't be read in the other arch.
> The fix will appear in Cygwin 3.3.0.  Do we really have to try to make the
> fix apply retroactively in case the user updates one arch but not the other?

Just to close this up prior to the 3.3.0 release...

Given we never actually strived for 32<->64 bit interoperability, it's
hard to argue why this should be different for the clipboard stuff.

Running 32 and 64 bit Cygwin versions in parallel doesn't actually make
much sense for most people anyway, unless they explicitely develop for
32 and 64 bit systems under Cygwin.  From a productivity point of view
there's no good reason to run more than one arch.

So I agree with Ken here.  It's probably not worth the trouble.


Corinna