Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Feb 2002 21:36:21 +0100 | From | Nico Schottelius <> | Subject | Re: [gpm]Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)? |
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:24:15PM +0100 Petr Baudis put his fingers on the keyboard an wrote: > Hello, > > About June 2001, in the era of 2.4.7 kernel, there occured a patch on LKML > (by Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar>), which improved the actual > selection API of kernel to allow applications to get the content of the > selection buffer etc. However, James Simmons said that he will be working on > this for 2.5 and move it to userspace completely, reworking gpm.
Possibly I got a mail about that, but as I have a huge backlog, I didn't read it. Possibly I have never heard about that and don't know anything particular about it. But in fact, improving something is generally good and if I have/get some information about that, we could include it in gpm.
> [..], I would like to ask if there's any movement in this issue.
Not here.
> I would be even willing to help, > if possible :).
Sounds good, so you're the person wrinting the patch for gpm ;)
-- {Greetings,Gruss}, Nico Schottelius
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