Re: Should winedevice.exe in the end be able to load file system drivers as well?

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hi Paul,

2008/5/7 Paul Vriens :
> Hi,
>
> The comment in winedevice.exe says "Service process to load a kernel driver".
>
> But will winedevice.exe in the (far ?) future be the vehicle to load file system
>  drivers as well.

I think the idea of loading filesystem drivers is insane at best,
unless you plan to add a whole vfs layer, or modify the captive driver
(NTFS binary driver loader for the linux kernel) to work on wine. And
even that probably depends on the vfs layer. Feel free to correct me
if I'm wrong.

Cheers,
Maarten.