From: simon <simon@cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:33:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fill in a long-missing comment marked as FIXME.
X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/utils/commitdiff_plain/3a3007a42fd846aa494270f8181717e13a548142?hp=a3256cf7bb5dea3d0e638f597a821423a246cb33

Fill in a long-missing comment marked as FIXME.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/utils@8907 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e
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diff --git a/xcopy/xcopy.c b/xcopy/xcopy.c
index 5847504..5a654a0 100644
--- 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. */