This replaces the pure radio-button setup that we've always had on the
Session config panel.
Since the last release, that set of radio buttons has been getting out
of hand. We've added two new protocols (SUPDUP, and the 'bare
ssh-connection' aka psusan protocol), neither of which is mainstream
enough to be a sensible thing to wave at all users on the front page
of the config GUI, so that they perhaps start wondering if that's the
protocol they want to use, or get sidetracked by going and looking it
up.
The replacement UI still has radio buttons, but only for the most
common protocols, which will typically be SSH and serial. Everything
else is relegated to a drop-down list sitting next to a third radio
button labelled "Other".
In every be_* module providing a backends[] list, there's also a
variable n_ui_backends which indicates how many of the backends ought
to appear as first-level radio buttons.
(Credit where due: this patch is a joint effort between Jacob and me,
and is one of those rare cases where it would be nice to be able to
put both our names into the Author field of the commit. Failing that,
I can at least mention it here.)
This is a small cleanup that removes a couple of copies of some boring
stubs, in favour of having just one copy that you can link against.
Unix Pageant can't currently use this, because it's in a precarious
state of _nearly_ having a random number generator: it links against
sshprng but not sshrand, and only uses it for the randomised keypress
acknowledgments in the GUI askpass prompt. But that means it does use
uxnoise, unlike the truly randomness-free tools.
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.
Nearly every part of the code that ever handles a full backend
structure has historically done it using a pair of pointer variables,
one pointing at a constant struct full of function pointers, and the
other pointing to a 'void *' state object that's passed to each of
those.
While I'm modernising the rest of the code, this seems like a good
time to turn that into the same more or less type-safe and less
cumbersome system as I'm using for other parts of the code, such as
Socket, Plug, BinaryPacketProtocol and so forth: the Backend structure
contains a vtable pointer, and a system of macro wrappers handles
dispatching through that vtable.
Should be no significant change in behaviour.
(Well, entering usernames containing commas on Plink's command line will be
a little harder now.)
[originally from svn r7628]
timing.c, and hence takes its own responsibility for calling
noise_regular() at regular intervals. Again, this means it will be
called consistently in _all_ the SSH-speaking tools, not just those
in which I remembered to call it!
[originally from svn r4913]
particular, the config box uses it in place of the word `PuTTY',
which means mid-session reconfig in pterm will look less strange
once I implement it. Also, while I'm at it, I've personalised all
the dialog boxes and menu items and suchlike so that PuTTYtel
actually claims to be PuTTYtel rather than PuTTY.
[originally from svn r3074]
link-module const variable `be_default_protocol' which suggests a sensible
default to the front end (which can ignore it). (DEFAULT_PORT is replaced by a
lookup in the backend[] table.)
Still not pretty, but it does mean that the recent fix for `ssh-default'
doesn't break PuTTYtel.
[originally from svn r2613]
advantages:
- protocol modules can call sk_write() without having to worry
about writes blocking, because blocking writes are handled in the
abstraction layer and retried later.
- `Lost connection while sending' is a thing of the past.
- <winsock.h> is no longer needed in most modules, because
"putty.h" doesn't have to declare `SOCKET' variables any more,
only the abstracted `Socket' type.
- select()-equivalent between multiple sockets will now be handled
sensibly, which opens the way for things like SSH port
forwarding.
[originally from svn r744]
variant which is patent-safe in the US and legal in France and
Russia. This is a horrible hack in some ways: it's shown up serious
deficiencies in the module boundaries. Needs further work, probably
once the SSH implementations are recombined.
[originally from svn r410]
