2009/2/17 Vincent Povirk madewokherd+8cd9@gmail.com:
My opinion on this particular issue doesn't matter, but we don't strictly prevent Windows apps from seeing the underlying Linux environment. Any app can make linux system calls, access the filename conversion functions, invoke linux programs, and access the unix filesystem using a wine-specific shell extension.
As I understand it, this isn't possible at present. If I'm wrong, I'd like to know :-)
(This is relevant to, e.g. malware analysis using Wine - where Wine-aware malware could easily just use int 0x80 to break out of the Wine environment. Which is one of the hazards of deliberately running toxic waste, and is why Zero Wine runs as a QEMU virtual machine rather than on the box directly, for a bit more safety.)
- d.