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  1. Feb 21, 2021
  2. Apr 18, 2020
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Make the backend_init error message dynamic. (NFC) · df2994a0
      Simon Tatham authored
      Now, instead of a 'const char *' in the static data segment, error
      messages returned from backend setup are dynamically allocated and
      freed by the caller.
      
      This will allow me to make the messages much more specific (including
      errno values and the like). However, this commit is pure refactoring:
      I've _just_ changed the allocation policy, and left all the messages
      alone.
      df2994a0
  3. Mar 10, 2020
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Change vtable defs to use C99 designated initialisers. · b4e1bca2
      Simon Tatham authored
      This is a sweeping change applied across the whole code base by a spot
      of Emacs Lisp. Now, everywhere I declare a vtable filled with function
      pointers (and the occasional const data member), all the members of
      the vtable structure are initialised by name using the '.fieldname =
      value' syntax introduced in C99.
      
      We were already using this syntax for a handful of things in the new
      key-generation progress report system, so it's not new to the code
      base as a whole.
      
      The advantage is that now, when a vtable only declares a subset of the
      available fields, I can initialise the rest to NULL or zero just by
      leaving them out. This is most dramatic in a couple of the outlying
      vtables in things like psocks (which has a ConnectionLayerVtable
      containing only one non-NULL method), but less dramatically, it means
      that the new 'flags' field in BackendVtable can be completely left out
      of every backend definition except for the SUPDUP one which defines it
      to a nonzero value. Similarly, the test_for_upstream method only used
      by SSH doesn't have to be mentioned in the rest of the backends;
      network Plugs for listening sockets don't have to explicitly null out
      'receive' and 'sent', and vice versa for 'accepting', and so on.
      
      While I'm at it, I've normalised the declarations so they don't use
      the unnecessarily verbose 'struct' keyword. Also a handful of them
      weren't const; now they are.
      b4e1bca2
    • Lars Brinkhoff's avatar
      New backend bitfield flags. · 269bd7e3
      Lars Brinkhoff authored
      269bd7e3
  4. Feb 22, 2020
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Pass the BackendVtable pointer to backend_init. · 0a09c12e
      Simon Tatham authored
      Now I can have multiple BackendVtable structures sharing all their
      function pointers, and still tell which is which when init is setting
      things up.
      0a09c12e
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Give BackendVtable separate id and displayname fields. · 9482f337
      Simon Tatham authored
      The previous 'name' field was awkwardly serving both purposes: it was
      a machine-readable identifier for the backend used in the saved
      session format, and it was also used in error messages when Plink
      wanted to complain that it didn't support a particular backend. Now
      there are two separate name fields for those purposes.
      9482f337
  5. Feb 07, 2020
  6. Sep 08, 2019
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Whitespace rationalisation of entire code base. · 5d718ef6
      Simon Tatham authored
      The number of people has been steadily increasing who read our source
      code with an editor that thinks tab stops are 4 spaces apart, as
      opposed to the traditional tty-derived 8 that the PuTTY code expects.
      
      So I've been wondering for ages about just fixing it, and switching to
      a spaces-only policy throughout the code. And I recently found out
      about 'git blame -w', which should make this change not too disruptive
      for the purposes of source-control archaeology; so perhaps now is the
      time.
      
      While I'm at it, I've also taken the opportunity to remove all the
      trailing spaces from source lines (on the basis that git dislikes
      them, and is the only thing that seems to have a strong opinion one
      way or the other).
          
      Apologies to anyone downstream of this code who has complicated patch
      sets to rebase past this change. I don't intend it to be needed again.
      5d718ef6
  7. Mar 16, 2019
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Seat method to set the current trust status. · 76d8d363
      Simon Tatham authored
      In terminal-based GUI applications, this is passed through to
      term_set_trust_status, to toggle whether lines are prefixed with the
      new trust sigil. In console applications, the function returns false,
      indicating to the backend that it should employ some other technique
      for spoofing protection.
      76d8d363
  8. Feb 06, 2019
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Make lots of 'int' length fields into size_t. · 0cda34c6
      Simon Tatham authored
      This is a general cleanup which has been overdue for some time: lots
      of length fields are now the machine word type rather than the (in
      practice) fixed 'int'.
      0cda34c6
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Add some missing 'const'. · 0aa8cf7b
      Simon Tatham authored
      plug_receive(), sftp_senddata() and handle_gotdata() in particular now
      take const pointers. Also fixed 'char *receive_data' in struct
      ProxySocket.
      0aa8cf7b
  9. Nov 03, 2018
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Convert a lot of 'int' variables to 'bool'. · 3214563d
      Simon Tatham authored
      My normal habit these days, in new code, is to treat int and bool as
      _almost_ completely separate types. I'm still willing to use C's
      implicit test for zero on an integer (e.g. 'if (!blob.len)' is fine,
      no need to spell it out as blob.len != 0), but generally, if a
      variable is going to be conceptually a boolean, I like to declare it
      bool and assign to it using 'true' or 'false' rather than 0 or 1.
      
      PuTTY is an exception, because it predates the C99 bool, and I've
      stuck to its existing coding style even when adding new code to it.
      But it's been annoying me more and more, so now that I've decided C99
      bool is an acceptable thing to require from our toolchain in the first
      place, here's a quite thorough trawl through the source doing
      'boolification'. Many variables and function parameters are now typed
      as bool rather than int; many assignments of 0 or 1 to those variables
      are now spelled 'true' or 'false'.
      
      I managed this thorough conversion with the help of a custom clang
      plugin that I wrote to trawl the AST and apply heuristics to point out
      where things might want changing. So I've even managed to do a decent
      job on parts of the code I haven't looked at in years!
      
      To make the plugin's work easier, I pushed platform front ends
      generally in the direction of using standard 'bool' in preference to
      platform-specific boolean types like Windows BOOL or GTK's gboolean;
      I've left the platform booleans in places they _have_ to be for the
      platform APIs to work right, but variables only used by my own code
      have been converted wherever I found them.
      
      In a few places there are int values that look very like booleans in
      _most_ of the places they're used, but have a rarely-used third value,
      or a distinction between different nonzero values that most users
      don't care about. In these cases, I've _removed_ uses of 'true' and
      'false' for the return values, to emphasise that there's something
      more subtle going on than a simple boolean answer:
       - the 'multisel' field in dialog.h's list box structure, for which
         the GTK front end in particular recognises a difference between 1
         and 2 but nearly everything else treats as boolean
       - the 'urgent' parameter to plug_receive, where 1 vs 2 tells you
         something about the specific location of the urgent pointer, but
         most clients only care about 0 vs 'something nonzero'
       - the return value of wc_match, where -1 indicates a syntax error in
         the wildcard.
       - the return values from SSH-1 RSA-key loading functions, which use
         -1 for 'wrong passphrase' and 0 for all other failures (so any
         caller which already knows it's not loading an _encrypted private_
         key can treat them as boolean)
       - term->esc_query, and the 'query' parameter in toggle_mode in
         terminal.c, which _usually_ hold 0 for ESC[123h or 1 for ESC[?123h,
         but can also hold -1 for some other intervening character that we
         don't support.
      
      In a few places there's an integer that I haven't turned into a bool
      even though it really _can_ only take values 0 or 1 (and, as above,
      tried to make the call sites consistent in not calling those values
      true and false), on the grounds that I thought it would make it more
      confusing to imply that the 0 value was in some sense 'negative' or
      bad and the 1 positive or good:
       - the return value of plug_accepting uses the POSIXish convention of
         0=success and nonzero=error; I think if I made it bool then I'd
         also want to reverse its sense, and that's a job for a separate
         piece of work.
       - the 'screen' parameter to lineptr() in terminal.c, where 0 and 1
         represent the default and alternate screens. There's no obvious
         reason why one of those should be considered 'true' or 'positive'
         or 'success' - they're just indices - so I've left it as int.
      
      ssh_scp_recv had particularly confusing semantics for its previous int
      return value: its call sites used '<= 0' to check for error, but it
      never actually returned a negative number, just 0 or 1. Now the
      function and its call sites agree that it's a bool.
      
      In a couple of places I've renamed variables called 'ret', because I
      don't like that name any more - it's unclear whether it means the
      return value (in preparation) for the _containing_ function or the
      return value received from a subroutine call, and occasionally I've
      accidentally used the same variable for both and introduced a bug. So
      where one of those got in my way, I've renamed it to 'toret' or 'retd'
      (the latter short for 'returned') in line with my usual modern
      practice, but I haven't done a thorough job of finding all of them.
      
      Finally, one amusing side effect of doing this is that I've had to
      separate quite a few chained assignments. It used to be perfectly fine
      to write 'a = b = c = TRUE' when a,b,c were int and TRUE was just a
      the 'true' defined by stdbool.h, that idiom provokes a warning from
      gcc: 'suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value'!
      3214563d
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Adopt C99 <stdbool.h>'s true/false. · a6f1709c
      Simon Tatham authored
      This commit includes <stdbool.h> from defs.h and deletes my
      traditional definitions of TRUE and FALSE, but other than that, it's a
      100% mechanical search-and-replace transforming all uses of TRUE and
      FALSE into the C99-standardised lowercase spellings.
      
      No actual types are changed in this commit; that will come next. This
      is just getting the noise out of the way, so that subsequent commits
      can have a higher proportion of signal.
      a6f1709c
  10. Oct 11, 2018
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      New abstraction 'Seat', to pass to backends. · b4c8fd9d
      Simon Tatham authored
      This is a new vtable-based abstraction which is passed to a backend in
      place of Frontend, and it implements only the subset of the Frontend
      functions needed by a backend. (Many other Frontend functions still
      exist, notably the wide range of things called by terminal.c providing
      platform-independent operations on the GUI terminal window.)
      
      The purpose of making it a vtable is that this opens up the
      possibility of creating a backend as an internal implementation detail
      of some other activity, by providing just that one backend with a
      custom Seat that implements the methods differently.
      
      For example, this refactoring should make it feasible to directly
      implement an SSH proxy type, aka the 'jump host' feature supported by
      OpenSSH, aka 'open a secondary SSH session in MAINCHAN_DIRECT_TCP
      mode, and then expose the main channel of that as the Socket for the
      primary connection'. (Which of course you can already do by spawning
      'plink -nc' as a separate proxy process, but this would permit it in
      the _same_ process without anything getting confused.)
      
      I've centralised a full set of stub methods in misc.c for the new
      abstraction, which allows me to get rid of several annoying stubs in
      the previous code. Also, while I'm here, I've moved a lot of
      duplicated modalfatalbox() type functions from application main
      program files into wincons.c / uxcons.c, which I think saves
      duplication overall. (A minor visible effect is that the prefixes on
      those console-based fatal error messages will now be more consistent
      between applications.)
      b4c8fd9d
  11. Oct 10, 2018
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Refactor the LogContext type. · ad0c502c
      Simon Tatham authored
      LogContext is now the owner of the logevent() function that back ends
      and so forth are constantly calling. Previously, logevent was owned by
      the Frontend, which would store the message into its list for the GUI
      Event Log dialog (or print it to standard error, or whatever) and then
      pass it _back_ to LogContext to write to the currently open log file.
      Now it's the other way round: LogContext gets the message from the
      back end first, writes it to its log file if it feels so inclined, and
      communicates it back to the front end.
      
      This means that lots of parts of the back end system no longer need to
      have a pointer to a full-on Frontend; the only thing they needed it
      for was logging, so now they just have a LogContext (which many of
      them had to have anyway, e.g. for logging SSH packets or session
      traffic).
      
      LogContext itself also doesn't get a full Frontend pointer any more:
      it now talks back to the front end via a little vtable of its own
      called LogPolicy, which contains the method that passes Event Log
      entries through, the old askappend() function that decides whether to
      truncate a pre-existing log file, and an emergency function for
      printing an especially prominent message if the log file can't be
      created. One minor nice effect of this is that console and GUI apps
      can implement that last function subtly differently, so that Unix
      console apps can write it with a plain \n instead of the \r\n
      (harmless but inelegant) that the old centralised implementation
      generated.
      
      One other consequence of this is that the LogContext has to be
      provided to backend_init() so that it's available to backends from the
      instant of creation, rather than being provided via a separate API
      call a couple of function calls later, because backends have typically
      started doing things that need logging (like making network
      connections) before the call to backend_provide_logctx. Fortunately,
      there's no case in the whole code base where we don't already have
      logctx by the time we make a backend (so I don't actually remember why
      I ever delayed providing one). So that shortens the backend API by one
      function, which is always nice.
      
      While I'm tidying up, I've also moved the printf-style logeventf() and
      the handy logevent_and_free() into logging.c, instead of having copies
      of them scattered around other places. This has also let me remove
      some stub functions from a couple of outlying applications like
      Pageant. Finally, I've removed the pointless "_tag" at the end of
      LogContext's official struct name.
      ad0c502c
  12. Oct 06, 2018
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Rename FROMFIELD to 'container_of'. · 9396fcc9
      Simon Tatham authored
      Ian Jackson points out that the Linux kernel has a macro of this name
      with the same purpose, and suggests that it's a good idea to use the
      same name as they do, so that at least some people reading one code
      base might recognise it from the other.
      
      I never really thought very hard about what order FROMFIELD's
      parameters should go in, and therefore I'm pleasantly surprised to
      find that my order agrees with the kernel's, so I don't have to
      permute every call site as part of making this change :-)
      9396fcc9
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Make Socket and Plug into structs. · 884a7df9
      Simon Tatham authored
      I think that means that _every_ one of my traitoids is now a struct
      containing a vtable pointer as one of its fields (albeit sometimes the
      only field), and never just a bare pointer.
      884a7df9
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Name vtable structure types more consistently. · b7982308
      Simon Tatham authored
      Now they're all called FooVtable, instead of a mixture of that and
      Foo_vtable.
      b7982308
  13. Oct 04, 2018
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Get rid of lots of implicit pointer types. · 96ec2c25
      Simon Tatham authored
      All the main backend structures - Ssh, Telnet, Pty, Serial etc - now
      describe structure types themselves rather than pointers to them. The
      same goes for the codebase-wide trait types Socket and Plug, and the
      supporting types SockAddr and Pinger.
      
      All those things that were typedefed as pointers are older types; the
      newer ones have the explicit * at the point of use, because that's
      what I now seem to be preferring. But whichever one of those is
      better, inconsistently using a mixture of the two styles is worse, so
      let's make everything consistent.
      
      A few types are still implicitly pointers, such as Bignum and some of
      the GSSAPI types; generally this is either because they have to be
      void *, or because they're typedefed differently on different
      platforms and aren't always pointers at all. Can't be helped. But I've
      got rid of the main ones, at least.
      96ec2c25
  14. Sep 24, 2018
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Rework special-commands system to add an integer argument. · f4fbaa1b
      Simon Tatham authored
      In order to list cross-certifiable host keys in the GUI specials menu,
      the SSH backend has been inventing new values on the end of the
      Telnet_Special enumeration, starting from the value TS_LOCALSTART.
      This is inelegant, and also makes it awkward to break up special
      handlers (e.g. to dispatch different specials to different SSH
      layers), since if all you know about a special is that it's somewhere
      in the TS_LOCALSTART+n space, you can't tell what _general kind_ of
      thing it is. Also, if I ever need another open-ended set of specials
      in future, I'll have to remember which TS_LOCALSTART+n codes are in
      which set.
      
      So here's a revamp that causes every special to take an extra integer
      argument. For all previously numbered specials, this argument is
      passed as zero and ignored, but there's a new main special code for
      SSH host key cross-certification, in which the integer argument is an
      index into the backend's list of available keys. TS_LOCALSTART is now
      a thing of the past: if I need any other open-ended sets of specials
      in future, I can add a new top-level code with a nicely separated
      space of arguments.
      
      While I'm at it, I've removed the legacy misnomer 'Telnet_Special'
      from the code completely; the enum is now SessionSpecialCode, the
      struct containing full details of a menu entry is SessionSpecial, and
      the enum values now start SS_ rather than TS_.
      f4fbaa1b
  15. Sep 19, 2018
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Introduce a typedef for frontend handles. · 8dfb2a11
      Simon Tatham authored
      This is another major source of unexplained 'void *' parameters
      throughout the code.
      
      In particular, the currently unused testback.c actually gave the wrong
      pointer type to its internal store of the frontend handle - it cast
      the input void * to a Terminal *, from which it got implicitly cast
      back again when calling from_backend, and nobody noticed. Now it uses
      the right type internally as well as externally.
      8dfb2a11
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Turn Backend into a sensible classoid. · eefebaaa
      Simon Tatham authored
      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.
      eefebaaa
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Make 'LogContext' a typedef visible throughout the code. · 3814a5ce
      Simon Tatham authored
      Same principle again - the more of these structures have globally
      visible tags (even if the structure contents are still opaque in most
      places), the fewer of them I can mistake for each other.
      3814a5ce
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Expose the Ldisc structure tag throughout the code. · e72e8ebe
      Simon Tatham authored
      That's one fewer anonymous 'void *' which might be accidentally
      confused with some other pointer type if I misremember the order of
      function arguments.
      
      While I'm here, I've made its pointer-nature explicit - that is,
      'Ldisc' is now a typedef for the structure type itself rather than a
      pointer to it. A stylistic change only, but it feels more natural to
      me these days for a thing you're going to eventually pass to a 'free'
      function.
      e72e8ebe
  16. May 27, 2018
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Modernise the Socket/Plug vtable system. · 5129c40b
      Simon Tatham authored
      Now I've got FROMFIELD, I can rework it so that structures providing
      an implementation of the Socket or Plug trait no longer have to have
      the vtable pointer as the very first thing in the structure. In
      particular, this means that the ProxySocket structure can now directly
      implement _both_ the Socket and Plug traits, which is always
      _logically_ how it's worked, but previously it had to be implemented
      via two separate structs linked to each other.
      5129c40b
  17. May 26, 2018
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Make lots of generic data parameters into 'void *'. · 7babe66a
      Simon Tatham authored
      This is a cleanup I started to notice a need for during the BinarySink
      work. It removes a lot of faffing about casting things to char * or
      unsigned char * so that some API will accept them, even though lots of
      such APIs really take a plain 'block of raw binary data' argument and
      don't care what C thinks the signedness of that data might be - they
      may well reinterpret it back and forth internally.
      
      So I've tried to arrange for all the function call APIs that ought to
      have a void * (or const void *) to have one, and those that need to do
      pointer arithmetic on the parameter internally can cast it back at the
      top of the function. That saves endless ad-hoc casts at the call
      sites.
      7babe66a
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Centralise TRUE and FALSE definitions into defs.h. · c9bad331
      Simon Tatham authored
      This removes a lot of pointless duplications of those constants.
      
      Of course, _ideally_, I should upgrade to C99 bool throughout the code
      base, replacing TRUE and FALSE with true and false and tagging
      variables explicitly as bool when that's what they semantically are.
      But that's a much bigger piece of work, and shouldn't block this
      trivial cleanup!
      c9bad331
  18. May 14, 2017
  19. Nov 22, 2015
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Option to log proxy setup diagnostics to the terminal. · 7c65b9c5
      Simon Tatham authored
      It has three settings: on, off, and 'only until session starts'. The
      idea of the last one is that if you use something like 'ssh -v' as
      your proxy command, you probably wanted to see the initial SSH
      connection-setup messages while you were waiting to see if the
      connection would be set up successfully at all, but probably _didn't_
      want a slew of diagnostics from rekeys disrupting your terminal in
      mid-emacs once the session had got properly under way.
      
      Default is off, to avoid startling people used to the old behaviour. I
      wonder if I should have set it more aggressively, though.
      7c65b9c5
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Factor out the back ends' plug log functions. · a6e76ae4
      Simon Tatham authored
      I'm about to want to make a change to all those functions at once, and
      since they're almost identical, it seemed easiest to pull them out
      into a common helper. The new source file be_misc.c is intended to
      contain helper code common to all network back ends (crypto and
      non-crypto, in particular), and initially it contains a
      backend_socket_log() function which is the common part of ssh_log(),
      telnet_log(), rlogin_log() etc.
      a6e76ae4
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Tell the truth about DNS lookups in the Event Log. · 37cdfdcd
      Simon Tatham authored
      We've always had the back-end code unconditionally print 'Looking up
      host' before calling name_lookup. But name_lookup doesn't always do an
      actual lookup - in cases where the connection will be proxied and
      we're configured to let the proxy do the DNS for us, it just calls
      sk_nonamelookup to return a dummy SockAddr with the unresolved name
      still in it. It's better to print a message that varies depending on
      whether we're _really_ doing DNS or not, e.g. so that people can tell
      the difference between DNS failure and proxy misconfiguration.
      
      Hence, those log messages are now generated inside name_lookup(),
      which takes a couple of extra parameters for the purpose - a frontend
      pointer to pass to logevent(), and a reason string so that it can say
      what the hostname it's (optionally) looking up is going to be used
      for. (The latter is intended for possible use in logging subsidiary
      lookups for port forwarding, though  the moment I haven't changed
      the current setup where those connection setups aren't logged in
      detail - we just pass NULL in that situation.)
      37cdfdcd
  20. Sep 25, 2015
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      New Plink operating mode: 'plink -shareexists'. · 7c2ea227
      Simon Tatham authored
      A Plink invocation of the form 'plink -shareexists <session>' tests
      for a currently live connection-sharing upstream for the session in
      question. <session> can be any syntax you'd use with Plink to make the
      actual connection (a host/port number, a bare saved session name,
      -load, whatever).
      
      I envisage this being useful for things like adaptive proxying - e.g.
      if you want to connect to host A which you can't route to directly,
      and you might already have a connection to either of hosts B or C
      which are viable proxies, then you could write a proxy shell script
      which checks whether you already have an upstream for B or C and goes
      via whichever one is currently active.
      
      Testing for the upstream's existence has to be done by actually
      connecting to its socket, because on Unix the mere existence of a
      Unix-domain socket file doesn't guarantee that there's a process
      listening to it. So we make a test connection, and then immediately
      disconnect; hence, that shows up in the upstream's event log.
      7c2ea227
  21. May 15, 2015
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Giant const-correctness patch of doom! · 89da2ddf
      Simon Tatham authored
      Having found a lot of unfixed constness issues in recent development,
      I thought perhaps it was time to get proactive, so I compiled the
      whole codebase with -Wwrite-strings. That turned up a huge load of
      const problems, which I've fixed in this commit: the Unix build now
      goes cleanly through with -Wwrite-strings, and the Windows build is as
      close as I could get it (there are some lingering issues due to
      occasional Windows API functions like AcquireCredentialsHandle not
      having the right constness).
      
      Notable fallout beyond the purely mechanical changing of types:
       - the stuff saved by cmdline_save_param() is now explicitly
         dupstr()ed, and freed in cmdline_run_saved.
       - I couldn't make both string arguments to cmdline_process_param()
         const, because it intentionally writes to one of them in the case
         where it's the argument to -pw (in the vain hope of being at least
         slightly friendly to 'ps'), so elsewhere I had to temporarily
         dupstr() something for the sake of passing it to that function
       - I had to invent a silly parallel version of const_cmp() so I could
         pass const string literals in to lookup functions.
       - stripslashes() in pscp.c and psftp.c has the annoying strchr nature
      89da2ddf
  22. Nov 22, 2014
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Another missing initialisation. · 91645175
      Simon Tatham authored
      This one spotted in the old-fashioned way, by actually attempting a
      Plink raw connection and wondering why it didn't seem to be reading
      from standard input! Turns out 'bufsize' is uninitialised until the
      first send, which can inhibit any stdin reading if it gets a large
      enough nonsense value.
      91645175
  23. Jan 25, 2014
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Use the new host_str* functions to improve IPv6 literal support. · 8da4fa50
      Simon Tatham authored
      I've gone through everywhere we handle host names / addresses (on
      command lines, in PuTTY config, in port forwarding, in X display
      names, in host key storage...) and tried to make them handle IPv6
      literals sensibly, by using the host_str* functions I introduced in my
      previous commit. Generally it's now OK to use a bracketed IPv6 literal
      anywhere a hostname might have been valid; in a few cases where no
      ambiguity exists (e.g. no :port suffix is permitted anyway)
      unbracketed IPv6 literals are also acceptable.
      
      [originally from svn r10120]
      8da4fa50
  24. Jul 14, 2013
  25. Dec 22, 2012
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Ronald Landheer-Cieslak points out that the various back ends which · 38b66864
      Simon Tatham authored
      treat all socket closures as clean exits (because the protocol doesn't
      provide for transferring a process exit code) could usefully at least
      treat _socket errors_ as unclean exits. Patch the Telnet, Rlogin and
      Raw backends to retain that information and return INT_MAX to the
      frontend.
      
      I wasn't sure whether it was better to solve this by modifying each
      affected frontend, or each affected backend. I chose the latter, but
      neither is really ideal; this is the sort of thing that makes me wish
      we had a piece of fixed middleware in between, independent of both
      platform and protocol.
      
      [originally from svn r9730]
      38b66864
  26. Sep 13, 2011
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Revamp of EOF handling in all network connections, pipes and other · 947962e0
      Simon Tatham authored
      data channels. Should comprehensively fix 'half-closed', in principle,
      though it's a big and complicated change and so there's a good chance
      I've made at least one mistake somewhere.
      
      All connections should now be rigorous about propagating end-of-file
      (or end-of-data-stream, or socket shutdown, or whatever) independently
      in both directions, except in frontends with no mechanism for sending
      explicit EOF (e.g. interactive terminal windows) or backends which are
      basically always used for interactive sessions so it's unlikely that
      an application would be depending on independent EOF (telnet, rlogin).
      
      EOF should now never accidentally be sent while there's still buffered
      data to go out before it. (May help fix 'portfwd-corrupt', and also I
      noticed recently that the ssh main session channel can accidentally
      have MSG_EOF sent before the output bufchain is clear, leading to
      embarrassment when it subsequently does send the output).
      
      [originally from svn r9279]
      947962e0
  27. Jul 14, 2011
    • Simon Tatham's avatar
      Post-release destabilisation! Completely remove the struct type · a1f3b7a3
      Simon Tatham authored
      '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]
      a1f3b7a3
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