[pass] Concurrency issue with --clip

[Philip Chase]

That seems completely reasonable.  I have never encountered another
application that reverted the clipboard to a previous value, so I never
expected pass to do it.

Philip



On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Michael Ren <micron33 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pass --clip spawns a subshell which sleeps for 45 seconds and then
> restores the previous contents of the clipboard. If another instance of
> pass --clip runs before the previous instance finishes sleeping, the
> second instance will use the clipped password from the first instance as
> the "old" clipboard contents, meaning that the first password will stay
> in the clipboard after both instances are done.
>
> This does not seem like desirable behavior, and I was wondering what
> should be done to address it; as a workaround, I've modified pass to
> echo empty text to the clipboard after sleep.
>
> To test:
>
> 1. pass show -c password1
> 2. Wait no more than 45 seconds
> 3. pass show -c password2
> 4. wait 45 seconds
> 5. examine clipboard contents; the contents of password1 are in the
> clipboard
>
> Best,
> Michael Ren
>
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