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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/patches/wmctrl-64-fix.patch')
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/wmctrl-64-fix.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/wmctrl-64-fix.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3ec1c913ff --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/wmctrl-64-fix.patch @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Description: Correct 64 Architecture implementation of 32 bit data +Author: Chris Donoghue <cdonoghu@gmail.com> +Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/362068 + +--- wmctrl-1.07.orig/main.c ++++ wmctrl-1.07/main.c +@@ -1425,6 +1425,16 @@ static gchar *get_property (Display *dis + * + * long_length = Specifies the length in 32-bit multiples of the + * data to be retrieved. ++ * ++ * NOTE: see ++ * http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2003-March/msg00067.html ++ * In particular: ++ * ++ * When the X window system was ported to 64-bit architectures, a ++ * rather peculiar design decision was made. 32-bit quantities such ++ * as Window IDs, atoms, etc, were kept as longs in the client side ++ * APIs, even when long was changed to 64 bits. ++ * + */ + if (XGetWindowProperty(disp, win, xa_prop_name, 0, MAX_PROPERTY_VALUE_LEN / 4, False, + xa_prop_type, &xa_ret_type, &ret_format, +@@ -1441,6 +1451,8 @@ static gchar *get_property (Display *dis + + /* null terminate the result to make string handling easier */ + tmp_size = (ret_format / 8) * ret_nitems; ++ /* Correct 64 Architecture implementation of 32 bit data */ ++ if(ret_format==32) tmp_size *= sizeof(long)/4; + ret = g_malloc(tmp_size + 1); + memcpy(ret, ret_prop, tmp_size); + ret[tmp_size] = '\0'; |