to a Unix-domain socket. This typically works fine when PuTTY is run on the
same machine as the X server, but it's broken multi-hop X forwarding through
OpenSSH; when OpenSSH creates a proxy X server "localhost:10", it only listens
on TCP, not on a Unix-domain socket.
Instead, when deciding on the details of the display, we actively probe to see
if there's a Unix-domain socket we can use instead, and only use it if it's
there, falling back to the specified IP "localhost" if not.
Independently, when looking for local auth details in Xauthority for a
"localhost" TCP display, we prefer a matching Unix-domain entry, but will fall
back to an IP "localhost" entry (which would be unusual, but we don't trust a
Windows X server not to do it) -- this is a generalisation of the special case
added in r2538 (but removed in r8305, as the automatic upgrade masked the need
for it).
(This is now done in platform-independent code, so a side-effect is that
get_hostname() is now part of the networking abstraction on all platforms.)
[originally from svn r8462]
[r2538 == fda9983243]
[r8305 == ca6fc3a4da]
do this if the supplied buffer isn't big enough, which shouldn't lead to
complete abandonment of X11 auth. (Would only have bitten with hostnames
>255 chars anyway.)
[originally from svn r8383]
strings more rigorously, and then we look up the local X authority
data in .Xauthority _ourself_ rather than delegating to an external
xauth program. This is (negligibly) more efficient on Unix, assuming
I haven't got it wrong in some subtle way, but its major benefit is
that we can now support X authority lookups on Windows as well
provided the user points us at an appropriate X authority file in
the standard format. A new Windows-specific config option has been
added for this purpose.
[originally from svn r8305]
- new function platform_get_x_display() to find a sensible local display.
On Unix, the Gtk apps weren't taking account of --display when
determining where to send forwarded X traffic.
- explicitly document that leaving X display location blank in config tries
to do something sensible (and that it's now blank by default)
- don't override X11Display setting in plink, since that's more properly
done later
[originally from svn r4604]
time. This gives rise to a whole bunch of spare warnings, one or two
of which might have been actual bugs; now all resolved.
[originally from svn r3134]
malloc functions, which automatically cast to the same type they're
allocating the size of. Should prevent any future errors involving
mallocing the size of the wrong structure type, and will also make
life easier if we ever need to turn the PuTTY core code from real C
into C++-friendly C. I haven't touched the Mac frontend in this
checkin because I couldn't compile or test it.
[originally from svn r3014]
Windows and Mac backends have acquired auth-finding functions which
do nothing; Unix backend has acquired one which actually works, so
Plink can now do X forwarding believably.
(This checkin stretches into some unlikely parts of the code because
there have been one or two knock-on effects involving `const'. Bah.)
[originally from svn r2536]
