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Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour
- From: Peter Hull <peterhull90 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:45:37 +0000
- Subject: Re: Writing to /dev/clipboard from multiple processes in Bash gives inconsistent behaviour
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> wrote:
> I'm running a bunch of Microsoft Office applications which I know do
> "helpful" things to the Windows clipboard. It hadn't occured to me that
> they may be causing BLODA-like problems in the way they interact with
> it.
Just to add my experience - on Windows 8 64-bit I see it maybe 1 in
200 times (using the infinitely-repeating script). Having applications
like Excel and Outlook open increases it to 1 in 10 or more. Also,
task manager shows those apps jumping up to use 15-20% CPU each while
the script is running.
Pete
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