April 2006 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

AppDB email address obfuscation
by n0dalus 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hi, I am concerned that the email addresses on the appdb are too easily harvestable. Is there a reason no effort seems to be made to hide the email addresses of users on there? Also, when getting a notification of a post, you can see everyone's email addresses in the To: field. Should these be Bcc? Just curious, n0dalus.

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Re: Implement THREAD_PRIORITY_TIME_CRITICAL
by Andreas Mohr 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hi, On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:06:23PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > This patch gives me rock solid audio in Imperium Galactica 2, so now the > game works perfectly. > > There has been discussion around this issue with respect to security in > the past, however, regardless of what approach is adopted this code will > have to be written anyway. Ah, thanks, nice to see that it actually helps. > + scheduler = SCHED_FIFO; IMHO we should really add some smart detection of SCHED_ISO kernel capability and *much* prefer to use that one then. One really wouldn't want to hang the box... Not to mention that SCHED_FIFO requires root, which is an absolute PITA. Nice To Have would be support for stuff such as SCHED_IDLEPRIO and SCHED_BATCH... > + if (result == -EPERM) > + { > + static int need_warning = 1; > + > + if (need_warning) > + { > + fprintf( stderr, "\nwineserver: Failed to promote the priority of a time critical thread.\n" ); > + fprintf( stderr, "Audio may destabilise. To fix this re-run the application as root.\n\n" ); > + need_warning = 0; > + } > + > + return; > + } Make that static int already_warned; /* static: = 0! */ Since static uses 0 as default and you don't want to waste space in the .bss(?) segment for an explicit 1 init. Andreas Mohr -- No programming skills!? Why not help translate many Linux applications! https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/rosetta (or alternatively buy nicely packaged Linux distros/OSS software to help support Linux developers creating shiny new things for you?)

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Re: [Bug 4979] New: wine .9.11 make fails on AMD64
by Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Wine Bugs wrote: > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4979 > > Summary: wine .9.11 make fails on AMD64 > Product: Wine > Version: 0.9.11. > Platform: PC-x86-64 > OS/Version: Linux > Status: UNCONFIRMED > Severity: normal > Priority: P2 > Component: wine-patches > AssignedTo: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org > ReportedBy: nospam(a)thenerdshow.com > > > Seems like this old bug is back, identical to this one, possibly? > http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/01/0598.html > > Trouble building wine .9.11 & CVS on AMD64. It's linking 64 bit libraries again > :( Passing LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib" --libdir=/usr/lib to configure doesn't help, > either. > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/fozner/install/wine/dlls/winmm/winearts' > ../../../tools/winegcc/winegcc -B../../../tools/winebuild -shared > ./winearts.drv.spec arts.o audio.o > -Wl,--rpath,\$ORIGIN/`../../../tools/relpath /usr/local/lib/wine /usr/local/lib` > -o winearts.drv.so -L../../../dlls -lwinmm -luser32 -lkernel32 -lntdll > -L../../../libs -lwine -L/usr/lib64 -ldl -lartsc -lpthread -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl > -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -L../../../libs/port -lwine_port > /usr/lib64/libdl.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format > > Rudimentary regression test: > wine .9.10 works fine with just ./configure && make depend && make. > wine .9.11 fails with above error > Today's CVS also fails. > > I can get it to build with some editing of the makefiles, but that's not the > point of this exercise. > > I figured this was important enough to forward to the list. Alexandre, could (should) there be a --dont-link-64bit-libs flag added to configure please, or maybe a --without-64bit-libs? Tom

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You don't have administrator privileges on this computer ... (whats changed in 0.9.11?)
by Roland Kaser 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hello I just tried to make my usual test installations on the new 0.9.11 release. But at this time the setup responses (in german) Sie haben keine Verwaltungsprivilegien auf diesem Computer. Setup kann nicht fortgesetzt werden. (You don't have administrator privileges on this computer. Setup cannot be continued..). Can somebody tell me whats happend to the username mapping in 0.9.11 what can I do to avoid those messages? Thanks Roland Kaeser

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What's uuid 33ad4ed2-6699-11cf-b70c-00aa0060d393?
by Dan Kegel 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=33ad4… turns up seven apps which fail with errors like fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_FindConnectionPoint no connection point for {33ad4ed2-6699-11cf-b70c-00aa0060d393} http://www.google.com/search?q=33ad4ed2-6699-11cf-b70c-00aa0060d393 turns up quite a few hits for 33ad4ed2-6699-11cf-b70c-00aa0060d393, but they're all wine errors, no definitions. I presume this UUID is associated with riched20's COM interface, but I don't know how to check. Anyone know? Thanks, Dan -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv

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linux 2.6.16 and 2G/2G-split
by Sven Köhler 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hi, i didn't get any response on the user-mailinglist, so i try the devel-list. here's my problem: since i upgraded my kernel to 2.6.16, wine segfaults immediatly after i start it. When i upgraded to 2.6.16, i also chose to use the 2G/2G vmsplit. Is wine supposed to work with that config? Thanks Sven

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Re: winhelp esperanto language update
by Alexandre Julliard 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

f_sophia <f_sophia(a)libero.it> writes: > Hi, Folks > > Change Log. > autor: Antonio Codazzi > e-mail: f_sophia(a)libero.it > Content: > /programs/winhelp/Eo.rc (Esperanto language) update n. 2. > - Added "short-cuts" support > > --- Eo.old 2006-03-26 01:56:27.000000000 +0100 > +++ Eo.rc 2006-03-29 00:19:11.000000000 +0200 Please generate patches from the top-level dir, especially for file names that exist in several directories. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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PATCH: msvcrt: test: Allow environment strings longer than 512 characters
by qingdoa daoo 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Test case added --------------------------------- New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC for low, low rates.

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COM programming in assembly, geez...
by Dan Kegel 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

While looking for COM documentation for C programmers (i.e. for when you want to do COM without helpers like MFC or ATL), I stumbled across quite a bit for assembly programmers! For the record, here are some of the interesting links on both subjects I ran across tonight: http://ript.net/~spec/ - implementation of COM servers and clients in raw C++. http://thunder.prohosting.com/~asm1/articles/com_1.txt - calling COM in asm http://thunder.prohosting.com/~asm1/articles/com_2.txt - COM objects in asm http://illmob.org/files/text/Accessing%20COM%20Objects%20from%20Assembly.ht… http://www.masmforum.com/ appears to be a bulletin board where quite a few assembers have support forums. http://www.japheth.de/h2incX.html says it's a tool to convert .h files to .inc files. http://www.masmforum.com/simple/index.php?topic=171.0 mentions that MS lets you download masm.exe for free under certain conditions. -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv

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Update on Software Freedom Law Center work
by Alexandre Julliard 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Folks, As announced at the last Wineconf, Jeremy and myself have been working for a few months now with the Software Freedom Law Center on a number of legal issues concerning Wine. We've been mostly quiet about it, so I thought I'd post a status update. There are two major tasks going on at the moment: 1. Code audit We are doing an audit of the code base, to make sure we have proper records of all contributions, and spot any potentially troublesome code. The goal is to be able to show to people who don't want to dig through the source that we have done our development properly, and that they can use Wine without fear of legal trouble. Currently, a survey is being sent out to people we have identified as major contributors, so that we can collect some information from them, like employers, license agreements, that sort of thing. This will enable us to build a complete track record for all contributions. We are still processing the results, at this point the responses we received cover approximately half of the code base (many thanks to everybody who took the time to answer!). We'll be sending the survey to more contributors in the near future to try to get as close to 100% coverage as we can. 2. Non-profit organization There are many advantages to having a non-profit organization for a project, for instance to allow tax-exempt donations, or hold assets like trademarks. However it's a lot of paperwork to do, so we never went to the trouble of setting one up. Now the SFLC is starting an organization called the Software Freedom Conservancy, that will be officially launched on Monday. It's basically an umbrella non-profit that provides services to free software projects. By joining that organization, we will get all the advantages of having our own non-profit, without having to do any of the work, so that seems like a good deal... There will also be the possibility of assigning our copyrights to that organization, which would make it easier to enforce the license, and provide some liability protection for developers. However this will only be done if most developers are comfortable with it, so I'd be interested to hear your feedback on this issue. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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