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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kde/qt apps sigpipe when selecting/copying large chunks of text to the clipboard
From:       Matt Rogers <matt () matt ! rogers ! name>
Date:       2003-03-07 0:20:34
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On Thursday 06 March 2003 04:12 pm, Rich wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> I have a problem that's been driving me nuts for a couple of days now:
>
> I'm able to crash Qt/kde programs by selecting and/or copying large chunks
> of text to the clipboard. I have a very simple example:
>
[snip]
> Using the above example, if I read a file of, say 10Meg, choose "select
> all" from the context menu and then "copy", my app dies with SIGPIPE:
[snip]
> Can anyone here confirm this behaviour? Having already submitted erroneous
> klipper and Qt bug reports regarding this, I'm going to be a bit more
> cautious until I have an idea of what's going on :)
>
> Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,

IIRC, this is a bug in QT, with QClipboard, actually. I don't remember what 
the exact problem is, but i at least know what it is. 

HTH,
Matt
-- 
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