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.
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
'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]
union of rates found in the termios.h of Linux 2.6.24 and "SunOS 5.6
Generic_105181-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4" machines. After a patch by
Thomas Bechtold.
[originally from svn r9028]
attempt to block, and hence return EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK, in spite of
the port having been reported readable by select(2). Don't treat
those errors as fatal.
[originally from svn r9020]
port number in the GUI when the connection type is changed if the current
port number is the standard one for the current protocol.
It's not perfect, but it should make the common case of tabbing through the
Session panel easier when starting non-SSH connections on odd ports.
[originally from svn r7635]
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]
PuTTY causes the child process to inherit a lot of socket fds from
its parent, which is a pain if one of them then ends up holding open
a listening socket which the parent was using for port forwarding
after the parent itself is dead.
Therefore, this checkin sprinkles FD_CLOEXEC throughout the Unix
platform directory wherever there looks like being a long-lived fd.
[originally from svn r6917]
is liable to have been set on serial ports previously used as
terminal devices, and definitely wants not to be set on serial ports
being used for callout.
[originally from svn r6865]
I own has both an X display and a working serial port) I have been
unable to give this the full testing it deserves; I've managed to
demonstrate the basic functionality of Unix Plink talking to a
serial port, but I haven't been able to test the GTK front end. I
have no reason to think it will fail, but I'll be more comfortable
once somebody has actually tested it.
[originally from svn r6822]
Ben Harris
Simon Tatham
Jacob Nevins