Re: RFC: KUSER_SHARED_DATA update patch to fix bug 29168

[Kornél Pál]

On 3/21/2012 9:11 PM, Joey Yandle wrote:
> > If user_shared_data was written by wineserver and mapped read-only to
> > wine processes there was no need to create separate threads in wine
> > processes. As I know Windows is sharing this structure and is updating
> > it in kernel mode so wine behavior was similar if was updated by
> > wineserver.
>
> Agreed, this is the ideal solution.  I'm just not sure how to do so
> while maintaining the virtual address mapping required for user_shared_data.

MapViewOfFile (and the underlying NtMapViewOfSection) has support for 
specifying the address to map it.

Thanks.

Kornel