Jon Doron <arilou@gmail.com> writes:

> The interesting thing is that in the past Wine behavior was correct
> and the change that basically broke it is commit:
>
> commit 0f5fc117a2320bb7e21b9ae4d07d717bed413171
> Author: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
> Date:   Mon Nov 19 14:27:07 2007 +0100
>
>     ntdll: Unblock signals in process init only after the dlls have
> been imported.
>
>
> Unfortunately though there I could not find any reason why the change
> was made or if there is any bug that it fixed back then (2007) .

There were apps (usually copy protection) that expected to find some
dlls already loaded in order to patch them. Still, it's very possible
that the initialization order isn't quite correct yet. The first step
would be to write some test cases.

--
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org