Is there any real, practical interest in Wine on Windows? I've been making some progress in this direction recently (though I think my approach would be to have a ported, NT-version of wineserver.exe which just uses native functions of the OS instead of emulating them over cygwin, which emulates those features using its own code once again; discussable anyway).
WBR, Aleksey Bragin.
On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:19 AM, Steven Edwards wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k@gmail.com wrote:
I don't expect Wine itself to ever work on cygwin. Last year I asked AJ about it and there are some special file handle features which are needed. This stuff is supported in SUA but at least in the Vista version this was broken. They MIGHT have fixed it for Win7, so if Wine can work on Windows it would need Win7 but still you would need a version which supports SUA (which are Ultimate and perhaps some business version).
If anyone is sufficiently interested in the sendrecv message sockets over file descriptor stuff (I know I am not anymore) there may be an archived email with a regression test I found showing the problem. Even though it was now listed as a supported operation, it kinda sorta worked in limited cases under Server 2003 and hung in others which Wine stress. I don't even recall all of the details at this point but it culminated in me presenting my findings to the SUA team developers and them saying 'that's nice, call our support to file a bug report'. Since I could not actually file the bug report myself online and calling Microsoft support is like a $200 (even if they do issue a refund or not charge your CC if it's a new real bug), I decided to waste no more time with it.
-- Steven Edwards
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