astrand / xclip

Command line interface to the X11 clipboard
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Timeout if a requestor stops responding #91

Open hackerb9 opened 3 years ago

hackerb9 commented 3 years ago

After xclip loses the selection, the background process will not exit if it is still sending data to a requestor. We should detect this case and send a failure message to the requestor (NULL property) and exit.