When I copy some text from a github commit inside Chrome,
the selection cannot be converted to text.
When I run xclip -o with that selection in the paste buffer,
I get a segmentation fault because free is being called with
an invalid argument (presumably because xcout isn't setting the
sel_buf pointer correctly on error).
When I copy some text from a github commit inside Chrome, the selection cannot be converted to text. When I run
xclip -owith that selection in the paste buffer, I get a segmentation fault becausefreeis being called with an invalid argument (presumably because xcout isn't setting thesel_bufpointer correctly on error).To fix this, remove the call to
freein the error case, as it isn't really necessary anyway as the program is about to exit.When the
freecall is removed,xclipprints this error instead of seg-faulting: