Re: xwinclip dies with select failure

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Jeff,

Most people are using the -clipboard command-line parameter for XWin.exe 
now... which provides the functionality of xwinclip.exe running in a 
seperate thread in XWin.exe.  I don't know that I will ever make any new 
releases of the stand-alone xwinclip.exe.

Thanks for the patch anyway,

Harold

Jeffrey C Honig wrote:
> I have found that xwinclip dies if I try to put it into the background:
>
> 	msp-arjuno 398: xwinclip
> 	UnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
>
> 	Suspended
> 	msp-arjuno 399: bg
> 	[1]    xwinclip &
> 	Call to select () failed: -1.  Bailing.
>
> The most likely reason is that the EINTR return from select() is not
> being ignored.  This diff should fix it, but I do not have a development
> environment loaded:
>
> --- xwinclip.c.~1~	2003-01-12 20:27:22.000000000 -0500
> +++ xwinclip.c	2003-03-23 16:26:39.000000000 -0500
> @@ -439,7 +439,10 @@
>  			NULL);		/* No timeout */
>        if (iReturn <= 0)
>  	{
> -	  printf ("Call to select () failed: %d.  Bailing.\n", iReturn);
> +	  if (errno == EINTR)
> +	    continue;
> +	  fprintf(stderr, "Call to select () failed: %s.  Bailing.\n",
> +	          strerror(errno));
>  	  break;
>  	}
>        
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff