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Now it can be called from places other than Pageant's WinMain(). In particular, the attempt to make a security descriptor in lock_interprocess_mutex() is gated on it. In return, however, I've tightened up the semantics. In normal PuTTY builds that aren't trying to support pre-NT systems, the function *unconditionally* returns true, on the grounds that we don't expect to target any system that doesn't support the security APIs, and if someone manages to contrive one anyway - or, more likely, if we some day introduce a bug in our loading of the security API functions - then this safety catch should make Pageant less likely to accidentally fall back to 'never mind, just run in insecure mode'.
This is the README for PuTTY, a free Windows and Unix Telnet and SSH
client.
PuTTY is built using CMake <https://cmake.org/>. To compile in the
simplest way (on any of Linux, Windows or Mac), run these commands in
the source directory:
cmake .
cmake --build .
Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix
`man' pages) is built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the `doc'
subdirectory using `doc/Makefile'. If you aren't using one of our
source snapshots, you'll need to do this yourself. Halibut can be
found at <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.
The PuTTY home web site is
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
ours.
See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.