status of kuser_shared_data tick count patch

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi,

I saw Wine 5.0 was released, but doesn't appear to contain
https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/blob/master/patches/ntdll-User_...

I'm wondering if this is still omitted from Wine proper intentionally.
If so, could somebody furnish the reasoning or link me to a still
relevant thread? I imagine there might be some performance concern
with the somewhat-busy loop updating the values?

Regards,
Jason

[Rémi Bernon]

On 1/27/20 2:44 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw Wine 5.0 was released, but doesn't appear to contain
> https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/blob/master/patches/ntdll-User_...
>
> I'm wondering if this is still omitted from Wine proper intentionally.
> If so, could somebody furnish the reasoning or link me to a still
> relevant thread? I imagine there might be some performance concern
> with the somewhat-busy loop updating the values?
>
> Regards,
> Jason

One of the arguments that was raised when this patch was discussed was 
that it creates an additional thread and it could confuse applications.

I've submitted another approach a few months ago using a service process 
instead, but it fell off the list. I'm going to refresh that at some point.