Fill in a long-missing comment marked as FIXME.

[sgt/utils] / xcopy / xcopy.c

diff --git a/xcopy/xcopy.c b/xcopy/xcopy.c
index 5847504..5a654a0 100644 (file)
--- a/xcopy/xcopy.c
+++ b/xcopy/xcopy.c
@@ -331,7 +331,13 @@ int init_X(void) {
     /* do selection fiddling */
     if (reading) {
         /*
-         * We are reading the selection, so we must FIXME.
+         * We are reading the selection. Call XConvertSelection to
+         * request transmission of the selection data in the
+         * appropriate format; the X event loop will then wait to
+         * receive the data from the selection owner.
+        *
+        * If there is no selection owner, look in the cut buffer
+        * property on the root window.
          */
         if (XGetSelectionOwner(disp, sel_atom) == None) {
             /* No primary selection, so use the cut buffer. */