behave like a pointer. In particular, the right thing to set a
HANDLE to to indicate that it's invalid is INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, not
NULL. Crack down on sloppy use of NULL HANDLEs across all Windows
code.
(There is one oddity, which is that {Create,Open}FileMapping are
documented to return a NULL HANDLE instead of INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
on failure. Shrug. If MS want to be inconsistent, I suppose I have
to live with it.)
[originally from svn r6833]
unfriendly in an interactive session, because at 19200 baud it takes
nearly two seconds to receive that much data, and as long as the
data is flowing continuously Windows waits until it has a full
buffer. So here's another annoying flag in the winhandl API, which
restricts reads to length 1 so that serial output shows up as it
appears.
(I tried this yesterday, but without the OVERLAPPED fix in r6826 it
behaved very erratically. It now seems solid.)
[originally from svn r6827]
[r6826 == 2aedc83f8d]
in place of making a network connection. This has involved a couple
of minor infrastructure changes:
- New dlg_label_change() function in the dialog.h interface, which
alters the label on a control. Only used, at present, to switch
the Host Name and Port boxes into Serial Line and Speed, which
means that any platform not implementing serial connections (i.e.
currently all but Windows) does not need to actually do anything
in this function. Yet.
- New small piece of infrastructure: cfg_launchable() determines
whether a Config structure describes a session ready to be
launched. This was previously determined by seeing if it had a
non-empty host name, but it has to check the serial line as well
so there's a centralised function for it. I haven't gone through
all front ends and arranged for this function to be used
everywhere it needs to be; so far I've only checked Windows.
- Similarly, cfg_dest() returns the destination of a connection
(host name or serial line) in a text format suitable for putting
into messages such as `Unable to connect to %s'.
[originally from svn r6815]
