I've always thought poll was more hassle to set up, because if you
want to reuse part of your pollfds list between calls then you have to
index every fd by its position in the list as well as the fd number
itself, which gives you twice as many indices to keep track of than if
the fd is always its own key.
But the problem is that select is fundamentally limited to the range
of fds that can fit in an fd_set, which is not the range of fds that
can _exist_, so I've had a change of heart and now have to go with
poll.
For the moment, I've surrounded it with a 'pollwrapper' structure that
lets me treat it more or less like select, containing a tree234 that
maps each fd to its location in the list, and also translating between
the simple select r/w/x classification and the richer poll flags.
That's let me do the migration with minimal disruption to the call
sites.
In future perhaps I can start using poll more directly, and/or using
the richer flag system (though the latter might be fiddly because of
sometimes being constrained to use the glib event loop). But this will
do for now.
The upcoming PRNG revamp will want to tell noise sources apart, so
that it can treat them all fairly. So I've added an extra parameter to
noise_ultralight and random_add_noise, which takes values in an
enumeration covering all the vague classes of entropy source I'm
collecting. In this commit, though, it's simply ignored.
Mostly on the Unix side: there are lots of places the Windows code was
collecting noise that the corresponding Unix/GTK code wasn't bothering
to, such as mouse movements, keystrokes and various network events.
Also, both platforms had forgotten to collect noise when reading data
from a pipe to a local proxy process, even though in that
configuration that's morally equivalent to the network packet timings
that we'd normally be collecting from.
I'd missed out an if statement in the Unix proxy stderr code
introduced by commit 297efff30, causing ret->cmd_err to be passed to
uxsel_set even when it was -1 (which happened in the non-GUI tools).
Unfortunately, putting a negative fd into the uxsel tree has really
bad effects, because the first_fd / next_fd interface returns a
negative number to signal end-of-list - and since the uxsel tree is
sorted by fd, that happens _immediately_.
Added the missing if statement, and also an assertion to make sure we
never pass -1 to uxsel_set by mistake again!
In case a front end needs to store more than an integer id to be
returned to uxsel_input_remove, we now return a pointer to a
frontend-defined structure.
inside one single uxsel front end, better to do it centrally and
avoid passing zero flags on to the front end in the first place. I'm
sure other similarly structured front ends could get confused by it
too.
[originally from svn r7171]
[r7164 == 65f9735b95]
being able to be a PuTTY as well as a pterm. In the process I've
also moved icky things like actually reading from the pty fd and
printing the `terminated on signal' messages into pty.c where they
obviously should have been in the first place. Also there's been one
interesting repercussion in the terminal code: terminal.c's
from_backend now calls term_out() directly rather than expecting the
front end to call it afterwards. This has had the entertaining side
effect of fixing a Windows-specific bug whereby activity in a port
forwarding through a PuTTY with a blinking cursor caused the cursor
to blink to ON (!!!!). So, a surprisingly far-reaching checkin as it
turns out...
[originally from svn r3017]
functionality that deal with selectable fds in general. The idea is
that pty.c will stop passing its fd straight to pterm.c and hand it
to this module instead, and pterm.c will start requesting a general
list of fds from this module rather than expecting a single one from
pty.c, with the ultimate aim of pterm.c being able to form the basis
of a Unix PuTTY as well as pterm proper.
[originally from svn r3015]
