Re: [RFC] Get selection to buffer addition

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Fri Dec 31 1999 - 20:24:46 EST


Hi!

> I'm sending this mail again with the patch in plain text and not
> gzip+uuencoded, sorry for any inconvenience.
>
> What I'm looking for:
> I'm looking for comments and approval for a small addition to the console
> driver (drivers/char/console.c).
>
> Small description:
> The included patches adds a couple of new services to the TIOCLINUX ioctl
> call, they are:
>
> 13 (get selection into a buffer): It copies the contents of the selection
> buffer (maintained in kernel space) into a user space provided buffer. Is
> something like "paste to a buffer" instead of just paste to the current
> console.
>
> 14 (get selection length): Returns the length of the selection buffer (0 if
> none selected).

Looks good to me. Now, all I want is utility to share clipboard between
X and text console...
                                                                Pavel

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