3 Apr
2012
3 Apr
'12
8:45 a.m.
Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@baikal.ru writes:
Joey Yandle dragon@dancingdragon.be wrote:
Why do you need to update the data in wineserver and not in the client?
The problem is that the timer updates need to be extremely precise, or they are worse than useless. So we can either do that in every wine process, or do it once in wineserver and share the memory.
On Windows, the kernel shares this memory with all applications for this exact reason.
It's been continously said that any memory sharing scheme between a client and wineserver won't be accepeted, ever.
Writable shared memory is unacceptable, but as long as it's read-only from the client there's no problem in principle.
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Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org