'Config' in putty.h, which stores all PuTTY's settings and includes an
arbitrary length limit on every single one of those settings which is
stored in string form. In place of it is 'Conf', an opaque data type
everywhere outside the new file conf.c, which stores a list of (key,
value) pairs in which every key contains an integer identifying a
configuration setting, and for some of those integers the key also
contains extra parts (so that, for instance, CONF_environmt is a
string-to-string mapping). Everywhere that a Config was previously
used, a Conf is now; everywhere there was a Config structure copy,
conf_copy() is called; every lookup, adjustment, load and save
operation on a Config has been rewritten; and there's a mechanism for
serialising a Conf into a binary blob and back for use with Duplicate
Session.
User-visible effects of this change _should_ be minimal, though I
don't doubt I've introduced one or two bugs here and there which will
eventually be found. The _intended_ visible effects of this change are
that all arbitrary limits on configuration strings and lists (e.g.
limit on number of port forwardings) should now disappear; that list
boxes in the configuration will now be displayed in a sorted order
rather than the arbitrary order in which they were added to the list
(since the underlying data structure is now a sorted tree234 rather
than an ad-hoc comma-separated string); and one more specific change,
which is that local and dynamic port forwardings on the same port
number are now mutually exclusive in the configuration (putting 'D' in
the key rather than the value was a mistake in the first place).
One other reorganisation as a result of this is that I've moved all
the dialog.c standard handlers (dlg_stdeditbox_handler and friends)
out into config.c, because I can't really justify calling them generic
any more. When they took a pointer to an arbitrary structure type and
the offset of a field within that structure, they were independent of
whether that structure was a Config or something completely different,
but now they really do expect to talk to a Conf, which can _only_ be
used for PuTTY configuration, so I've renamed them all things like
conf_editbox_handler and moved them out of the nominally independent
dialog-box management module into the PuTTY-specific config.c.
[originally from svn r9214]
ago, I apparently caused all data received from local proxies to be
unconditionally tagged as TCP Urgent. Most network backends ignore
this, but it's critical to the Telnet backend, which will ignore all
Urgent-marked data in the assumption that there's a SYNCH on its way
that it should wait for. Nobody has noticed in two years, presumably
meaning that nobody has ever tried to do Telnet over a local proxy
in that time.
[originally from svn r8158]
a serial port backend:
- In order to do simultaneous reading and writing on the same
HANDLE, you must enable overlapped access and pass an OVERLAPPED
structure to each ReadFile and WriteFile call. This would make
sense if it were an optional thing I could do if I wanted to do
the reading and writing in the same thread, but making it
mandatory even if I'm doing them in _different_ threads is just
annoying and arbitrary.
- Serial ports occasionally return length 0 from ReadFile, for no
particularly good reason. Fortunately serial ports also don't
have a real EOF condition to speak of, so ignoring EOFs is
actually a viable response in spite of sounding utterly gross.
Hence, handle_{input,output}_new() now accept a flags parameter,
which includes a flag to enable the OVERLAPPED bureaucracy and a
flag to cause EOFs to be ignored on input handles. The current
clients of winhandl.c do not use either of these.
[originally from svn r6813]
inherit _our_ ends of its I/O pipes! Otherwise, closing our copy of
those handles does not cause it to see EOF on its stdin, because
it's holding the pipe open itself.
[originally from svn r6808]
