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In the Windows API, there are two places you can get a command line in
the form of a single unsplit string. One is via the command-line
parameter to WinMain(); the other is by calling GetCommandLine(). But
the two have different semantics: the WinMain command line string is
only the part after the program name, whereas GetCommandLine() returns
the full command line _including_ the program name.
PuTTY has never yet had to parse the full output of GetCommandLine,
but I have plans that will involve it beginning to do so. So I need to
make sure the utility function split_into_argv() can handle it.
This is not trivial because the quoting convention is different for
the program name than for everything else. In the program's normal
arguments, parsed by the C library startup code, the convention is
that backslashes are special when they appear before a double quote,
because that's how you write a literal double quote. But in the
program name, backslashes are _never_ special, because that's how
CreateProcess parses the program name at the start of the command
line, and the C library must follow suit in order to correctly
identify where the program name ends and the arguments begin.
In particular, consider a command line such as this:
"C:\Program Files\Foo\"foo.exe "hello \"world\""
The \" in the middle of the program name must be treated as a literal
backslash, followed by a non-literal double quote which matches the
one at the start of the string and causes the space in 'Program Files'
to be treated as part of the pathname. But the same \" when it appears
in the subsequent argument is treated as an escaped double quote, and
turns into a literal " in the argument string.
This commit adds support for this special initial-word handling in
split_into_argv(), via an extra boolean argument indicating whether to
turn that mode on. However, all existing call sites set the flag to
false, because the new mode isn't needed _yet_. So there should be no
functional change.
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 .
Then, to install in the simplest way on Linux or Mac:
cmake --build . --target install
On Unix, pterm would like to be setuid or setgid, as appropriate, to
permit it to write records of user logins to /var/run/utmp and
/var/log/wtmp. (Of course it will not use this privilege for
anything else, and in particular it will drop all privileges before
starting up complex subsystems like GTK.) The cmake install step
doesn't attempt to add these privileges, so if you want user login
recording to work, you should manually ch{own,grp} and chmod the
pterm binary yourself after installation. If you don't do this,
pterm will still work, but not update the user login databases.
Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix
`man' pages) is built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the `doc'
subdirectory. 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.