Re: RFC: KUSER_SHARED_DATA update patch to fix bug 29168

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Joey Yandle  wrote:
> After looking over the code, I think I should just mmap() directly in
> wineserver rather than using MapViewOfFile; I should however still use
> MapViewOfFile in ntdll/thread.c.
>
> Mr Google tells me that I can get a handle for MapViewOfFile by calling
> CreateFileMapping.  The first arg of that is also a HANDLE, which I
> should be able to get by calling wine_server_fd_to_handle (as is done
> elsewhere in thread.c).
>
> So I'm going to go ahead and try this now.  If anyone has a issue with
> this approach, please let me know.

It's been explained several times already that any approach to share data
between wineserver and clients is going to be rejected.