Sebastian Lackner sebastian@fds-team.de writes:
I'm not sure if Alexandre has already agreed to this approach, but from my point of view it would make sense to do some measurements. How fast is the proposed named pipe approach compared to alternatives (unpatched Wine, or the Linux-only implementation included in Wine Staging)? In general I like the idea, but I fear that adding significant optimizations afterwards will be very difficult.
Performance is of course an interesting question, but correctness comes first. Unpatched Wine does not provide correct semantics, so it doesn't really matter how fast it would be.
A Linux-only hack could potentially be used as an optimization, but we need a working portable implementation first.