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RE: How can an app detect it's running under WINE?
by Patrik Stridvall 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

> At 13.22 25/10/2002 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:30:15AM +0200, Alberto Massari wrote: > > >[...] > > > >Like someone else said (IIRC), you could check for the existence > >of the Wine configuration registry key branch. That'd be a > 150% reliable > >method of detecting Wine presence. > > > >But again, trying to fix issues would be preferrable. > >(unless there are just too many problems to be fixed) > > Thanks for your answers: we all agree that the best thing to > do is to have > WINE support all the WIN32 API, and mimic all the Windows flavors. > But just like an application calls GetVersionEx to decide how > to behave on > a specific platform, it is perfectly valid for it to try to > detect WINE as > a variant of Windows, and react accordingly. That registry > information is > the right piece of information, as it could also be used to > instruct the > user on the changes needed to make the application work better. Oh sure, you CAN detect Wine if you want, the point is that the Wine project reserves the right to change any behavior at any time for any reason, but most often in order to try to make some application more compatible with Windows. If this breaks your Wine detection, tough. We will not change back because of you. So that is why there is no OFFICAL way to detect Wine, simple because if where was an offical way people could quite reasonable complain if some change to Wine broke their detection. However since there are no offical way, they can't complain can they? :-)

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Whats done? not?
by Christensen Tom 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

Obviously wine is still being actively developed, and I know its not close to "done" however, I want to get involved, I know C/C++ and have a pretty good grasp of windows apis, I'm just wondering is there a place (kinda like in the Mono project they have a tree laid out with all of the classes/functions that are in the .NET runtime, and they have them marked done, being worked on, not started...) So I'm wondering if wine has anything similar? or should i just pick a function, and see if its done already by searching through the source? At any rate, wine should have a nice concise place to look and see if wine has certain functions implimented.. Tom _________________________________________________________________ Broadband? Dial-up? Get reliable MSN Internet Access. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp

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Re: How can an app detect it's running under WINE?
by Greg Turner 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

On Friday 25 October 2002 03:55 am, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > >>>>> "Greg" == Greg Turner <gmturner007(a)ameritech.net> writes: > Greg> I don't like this solution. Those entries are likely to be > Greg> present in certain shared wine / native windows configurations. > > The "Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config" tree is read from ~/.wine/config on each > startup and is not written to a .reg file. So if it ret mixed, things are > broken. > > Bye I didn't think of those. you are right, that seems pretty safe. -- gmt "Oh, and of course, the fastest way to dig a tunnel is to dig at both sides." -- The Linux Advanced Routing HOWTO

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Re: How can an app detect it's running under WINE?
by Greg Turner 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

On Friday 25 October 2002 02:51 am, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > >>>>> "Alberto" == Alberto Massari <alby(a)exln.com> writes: > > Alberto> Hi everybody, I am working on making our software (Stylus > Alberto> Studio, http://www.stylusstudio.com) run under WINE, if this > is Alberto> feasible. To achieve this, I have already implemented a bunch > Alberto> of APIs (the application is built against the UNICODE version > Alberto> of the Win32 APIs) and fixed some bugs I hit (I already mailed > Alberto> the first patch to wine-patches(a)winehq.com). > > Alberto> However, I would feel better if I could detect I am running > Alberto> under WINE and gracefully disable some functionalities that > are Alberto> not yet fully supported; is there any way to achieve this? Is > Alberto> there a WIN32 API (like, say, GetVersionEx) that can return a > Alberto> string like "Windows 2000 (WINE)" or is WINE trying to be as > Alberto> stealth as possible? > > You can query for example the wine registry entries. > > Bye I don't like this solution. Those entries are likely to be present in certain shared wine / native windows configurations. -- gmt "Oh, and of course, the fastest way to dig a tunnel is to dig at both sides." -- The Linux Advanced Routing HOWTO

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hack to make GrandPrixLegens and N2002 work
by Christoph Frick 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

Hi! This is an more or less a straight forward hack to make the game grand prix legends work. It will also effect other games from Papyrus. The game has two problems: 1) It binds more than one time to the same port without doing an SO_REUSEADDR. Acording to UNP it is no big deal to do so - so i just force it. 2) The game sets SO_DONTROUTE on the socket. This works in linux and prevent the user of connecting to games in other networks. Either windows ignores the SO_DONTROUTE or it is not set in native windows or it is ignored. I dont have any opportunity to find out. Another thing is a registry key the game expexcts: [System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Class\\NetTrans\\0000] 1027876728 "IPAddress"="192.168.66.6" It runs with this setting (also N2002); maybe the dontroute problem could also be solved, if the remaining keys to properly define the TCP/IP config for a NIC in windows are set?! So my plea: Could some windows network/socket guru point me in a direction to do further investigations? BTW: i can not imagine this "patch" makes it to the tree - but just to have it said: The patch is under BSD License. CU!

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Re: avoid XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode while detecting no dga
by Lionel Ulmer 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:21:22PM -0500, Greg Turner wrote: > I did not investigate root causes, so someone may know > a better fix. > LICENSE: X11 > CHANGELOG: > * dlls/x11drv/dga2.c: Greg Turner <gmturner(a)ameritech.net> > - avoid X11 error during DGA detection. Grmbl, I must have missed that case when I submitted my fix last time (I only did it in the actual DGA2 usage, not in the 'probing' code). The actual root cause is (for me), a 'feature' in the X server that, instead of reporting the extension as missing on remote clients, report it as being present but then send error messages when trying to use it. Lionel -- Lionel Ulmer - http://www.bbrox.org/

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Services
by Martin Wilck 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

I have had a look at dlls/advapi/services.c and found that it is pretty incomplete. Can anybody tell what the current implementation is used for (are there any known programs starting services?) In particular I'd like to know what people generally think about the usefulness of Services in Wine. The fact that wine cannot change user personalities and is lacking most of the NT security concepts makes services pretty useless. However it may be desirable to translate services into something useful on Unix, especially for winelib (it would be useful for the app I am trying to port). Has there been a discussion yet how to set this up without compromising system security? Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:Martin.Wilck@Fujitsu-Siemens.com D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy

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eTax status report
by Ben Stanley 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

Hi, I have now completed using the eTax program from the Australian Taxation Office (http://etax.ato.gov.au) under wine, and have some concluding remarks. * Yellow Note Popups over buttons: these notes pop up almost immediately you put your mouse over a button, and if you click on them, the button does not respond. This causes great user frustration, as you point the mouse at a button, click the mouse, and nothing happens because the popup note appeared and stole the mouse click. Perhaps this could be solved by moving the popup note position so that it's not directly under the mouse pointer? I don't know if this is an etax problem or a wine problem. Workaround: move mouse over button and click again, or be very quick with your mouse click the first time. * ListView (tree): when hovering over items with long names, the same popup note appears, and also greedily steals mouse clicks, preventing you from selecting the item underneath. The note must pass the mouse click through for proper handling by the list item. Workaround: Wait for popup to disappear and then click on list item. * I had some refresh issues with the print preview section of the program. When it draws a page for the first time, all form fields appear to be filled in correctly, but when scrolling the form fields are often left blank when they should be filled in. This may be verified by going forward and then back a page, to force a complete re-draw of the original page, and verifying that fields which were previously blank are now drawn properly. * I didn't try to submit the tax return under wine, as I did not know about the wine integration of the web browser which would be used to perform the submission. (I failed to download the security codes under Mozilla, so I resorted to a Windows box for downloanding security codes and submission.) * Help problems, partly to do with launching winhelp from within etax, and also partly because WINE help can't yet read the etax help file properly. I used etax in the desktop windowing mode, as I had problems with both the managed and unmanaged modes. I set all dlls to builtin (except for "*"). This is the first year that I have been able to use eTax to do the tax return. I want to thank all of the wine contributors for making it possible! Last year I gave up and used a Windows box for the whole thing. Ben Stanley

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Re: Services
by Dustin Navea 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

--- Steve Langasek <vorlon(a)dodds.net> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:19:21AM -0700, Dustin > Navea wrote: > > > --- Steve Langasek <vorlon(a)dodds.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:08:49AM -0700, Dustin > > > Navea wrote: > > > > Just as wine should not be run as root, file i/o > in > > > wine should NEVER be > > > done in a security context other than that of > the > > > user running the Windows > > > app. Anything that would cause user data files > to > > > be written out under a > > > different uid is broken. > > > Thats not what I'm saying, what I'm saying is > this: > > Yes, that *is* what you're saying. Having the file > get saved to the Unix > fs with owner and group wine is most definitely a > user data file "[being] > written out under a different uid." That is > absolutely out of the > question. I will never knowingly permit software > that works this way > to be installed on my systems. > Not exactly, because as the fact that wine is the program saving it, and wine is running under user/group wine (in the future), it will save it as user/group wine. > > So he goes and changes the owner/group to > > speeddy/speeddy, oepns the file in kword, adds a > few > > more lines, and saves it. > > Um, and how exactly is this supposed to happen on a > multiuser system? You > *cannot* change the ownership of a file without root > privileges. that is what im saying, he does: sudo chown speeddy.speeddy /path/to/filename At best, > if you have write perms on the directory the file's > in and you have read > access to the file, you can copy the file and delete > the original, giving > you a single copy that's owned by you. But this is > only the least of the > reasons why Windows apps should not be writing to > files as user "wine" to > begin with. I knew that much already ;) But if wine is to run as a "service" (i.e. load at bootup via an initscript) and acutally be functional as well as user-friendly, it will have to run in it's own account, just like apache and pgsql do and like i believe named does... -Dustin __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/

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Why would Installshield want WINSPOOL.DRV
by David.Goodenough＠DGA.co.uk 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

I was asked by my son to install a couple of games for him on his Linux laptop. Wine is installed (at the current Debian unstable level) but when I try to run the installer, which says it is InstallShield, it gets to 99% and stops, and the console says that it can not load WINSPOOL.DRV. Firstly I can think of no good reason for InstallShield to want this (can anyone else, as far as I know this game - Star Trek Elite Force - does not have a print facility), and secondly what do you think is my best route fix the problem. There are some Windows machines (98/ME/NT4) in the house, I am using Win 98 mode in Wine, which machine should I copy WINSPOOL.DRV from if it will help? Thanks in advance David

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