Re: vnc clipboard support

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 4:03 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
> > - the spice protocol had a number of iterations to fix some races. It would
> > be great not to repeat the same mistakes, and I don't know if VNC have the
> > same flaws or not.
>
> # grep CAP.*CLIPBOARD.*, /usr/include/spice-1/spice/vd_agent.h
>     VD_AGENT_CAP_CLIPBOARD,
>     VD_AGENT_CAP_CLIPBOARD_BY_DEMAND,
>     VD_AGENT_CAP_CLIPBOARD_SELECTION,
>     VD_AGENT_CAP_MAX_CLIPBOARD,
>     VD_AGENT_CAP_CLIPBOARD_NO_RELEASE_ON_REGRAB,
>     VD_AGENT_CAP_CLIPBOARD_GRAB_SERIAL,
>
> Oh yea, I see.  Is that (and the rest of the protocol) documented
> somewhere, other than vd_agent.h?

Yes, the git log/blame is probably the best reference: I don't know of
any up to date documentation of the protocol, only some ancient
documents.


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Marc-André Lureau