in question vary per OS: on Windows the problem is that WM_TIMER
sometimes goes off too early, so that GetTickCount() is right and
the callback time is wrong, whereas on Unix the problem is that my
GETTICKCOUNT implementation comes from the system clock which means
it can change suddenly and non-monotonically if the sysadmin is
messing about (meaning that the timing of callbacks from GTK or
select timeouts is _more_ likely to be right than GETTICKCOUNT).
This checkin provides band-aid workarounds for both problems, which
aren't pretty but ought to at least prevent catastrophic assertion
failure.
[originally from svn r5556]
refusal to allow comparison of function pointers. Unfortunately this
still doesn't cause PuTTY to compile on my lcc installation, because
the GetCharacterPlacement stuff in exact_textout() is missing from
its header files. This may have been fixed in a future version (I'm
using lcc-win32 version 3.8 from December 2003), but I haven't
checked.
[originally from svn r5527]
which pretty much any module can call to request a call-back in the
future. So terminal.c can do its own handling of blinking, visual
bells and deferred screen updates, without having to rely on
term_update() being called 50 times a second (fixes: pterm-timer);
and ssh.c and telnet.c both invoke a new module pinger.c which takes
care of sending keepalives, so they get sent uniformly in all front
ends (fixes: plink-keepalives, unix-keepalives).
[originally from svn r4906]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
Jacob Nevins
Simon Tatham