Re: Wine's Registry Format
--On Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:31 AM -0400 Brad DeMorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Samba already uses something called 'TDB', and it's been suggested that the two projects could share a case-insensitive-filename layer based on it; could you look into using that? I've not heard of this 'TDB' before, nor do I know anything about that situation, however, again - given the opportunity - I will look into whatever the community wants before I make any decisions about how the project will be done. Today's Samba announcement includes something about the ability to handle NT registry files: http://us2.samba.org/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3-0-20pre1.txt
Re: Another debugging tutorial
--On Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:00 PM +0100 Mike Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie developers, I crave your feedback. Are these actually useful or am I wasting my time? While I haven't had a chance to check these out, I value the resource for future use. I've got some upcoming Windows-based projects where the ability to use WINE to debug sounds attractive.
Re: exeCryptor
--On Monday, May 16, 2005 1:15 PM +0100 Mike Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to whether he can use exeCryptor on a native Linux app, no, I'm afraid that's not possible. It might work in Wine but then you'd have to run the Windows version of this app. I'm wondering how effective the program can be within WINE. It supposedly detects and resists attempts to debug encrypted applications to break the code, but can it do so with WINE's virtualized environment? Wouldn't WINE (or other virtual OS apps like VMWare) make a great cracking tool for this?
exeCryptor
http://www.strongbit.com/execryptor.asp Anyone have experience with this on WINE? Another developer pointed this out to me for use with a Windows binary, and is not releasing Linux betas because there's no native Linux equivalent. (The app works fine native in Linux, but the dev want's to prevent unauthorized use until GA.)
Re: Benchmarking Wine againt XP
--On Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:55 PM -0700 Duane Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because it was more than 1MB (which I mentioned it the rejection)! That evil moderator! How dare he protect us all from megabyte mail bombs! ;) ;) I'd like to see the results, but I'd rather pull them from a website. What format are they in?
Re: DOS interrupts in Wine
--On Monday, March 14, 2005 4:50 PM +0100 Sam Lauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Wine correctly implement all the DOS Services and interrupts? What Windows program still uses DOS interrupts?
Re: Wine in the press
--On Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:38 PM +0100 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you're interested; issue was completely unrelated to Wine, in fact I couldn't have solved it without Wine This aspect should be pushed more to Windows developers. Real Windows is a black box API, and WINE gives great visibility into what's really happening under the covers. Debugging under WINE can reveal info and insight not available under real Windows.
Re: Hyperthreading and SMP
--On Monday, January 03, 2005 1:15 PM -0500 Kuba Ober [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that something else is going on that probably has little to do with wine but a lot to do with that application's memory access patterns. Hyperthreading has known cases in which if memory is the contention source, running two threads on same physical CPU but separate logical ones will slow things down. Thanks, I'll have to see if I can find out more about that so I can pass it upstream to the app's devs. Since wine is a multi-process thingo, probably the application process and wineserver have been thrasing that single CPU's caches by trying to run concurrently on two logical CPUs. If you have SMP HT machine, it'd be safest methinks to run the app locked to one logical CPU on given physical CPU, and the wineserver on either the same logical CPU or on a different physical CPU. I hope I make sense :) Yep, given your first paragraph. Thanks for the details.
Re: Windows Admionistrator Rights
--On Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:12 AM -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I tell Wine to trick an install program into thinking the user has administrator rights under Windows XP? I've switched the windows type in the config file to winxp but the install program for Autocad 2005 tells me to log in again as an administrator. My guess is that it's either unable to write to a system directory or it's looking for a certain group membership. Try tracing the installer and see if it's doing something like that.
Re: Windows Admionistrator Rights
--On Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:39 PM -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing this means WIne is compiled on this machine in a way that doesn't output debug information? If so (please let me know) then I'll have to look up how to compile to include this output. I installed my copy on Fedora Core 2 by building an RPM, and WINE is pretty chatty, so the default configure options in the RPM spec file must be what you need.
Hyperthreading and SMP
Does WINE have any problem with either Hyperthreading or SMP? I've found that locking the Tribes Vengeance dedicated server to a single logical CPU seems to give me better performance as the server fills with players. CPU usage seems significantly lower (45% versus 65%). Is this likely to be a WINE issue or a TV issue? (TV is based on the Unreal Tournament engine, with the Havok physics engine integrated to handle vehicle. Alas, unlike UT2004, there's no native Linux server for TV.) More here: http://lists.matureasskickers.net/pipermail/tvservers/2004-December/000186.html I want to try disabling HT or setting affinity on my co-admin's Win2003 server to see if he sees the same boost.
Re: Hyperthreading and SMP
--On Tuesday, December 21, 2004 4:57 PM -0500 Kuba Ober [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kernel version were you running under? Could that be related at all to thread CPU affinity under 2.6? 2.6.8-1.521smp on Fedora Core 2. What's the issue you're referring to?
Re: wine-preloader defunct
--On Friday, December 03, 2004 3:18 PM +0900 Mike McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bug present in Linux 2.6.[0-7] and is fixed in Linux 2.6.8 and later. Running 2.6.8-1.521smp on Fedora Core 2.
Re: wine-preloader defunct
--On Thursday, December 02, 2004 11:15 PM -0500 James Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does 'kill -9 processnum' not work? Son of a gun, that did it. I'm so used to avoiding that that it didn't occur to me to try it.
Re: Blocking automatic debugger launch
--On Monday, November 08, 2004 10:38 AM +0100 Andreas Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, there is: fix the crash! :-) Yeah, I know, it's just that it's not my code and I'm not certain that the authors will be releasing an update. There's a rumor of one but no certainty, as the company (a game publisher) refuses to make any announcements about what it's working on.
Blocking automatic debugger launch
I've got an app that seems to be crashing during shutdown. (Tribes Vengeance dedicated server) I'm running it detached inside a screen session, and I don't want the debugger to automatically launch when the app crashes. I just want the thing to die when I send it a quit command. Currently I've hacked the registry setting and changed the debugger name to true. Is there a cleaner way to accomplish this?
Re: CreateFile GENERIC_WRITE on a directory
--On Sunday, October 10, 2004 3:45 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Opened a bugzilla: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2508 I've since cobbled together a patch to dlls/kernel/file.c that watches for this case and switches the GENERIC_WRITE to a GENERIC_READ. This lets the app start up properly. (The patch is attached to the bug.) I'm not yet happy with my patch, as it's just a hack for this one app and is likely to break other things. Can someone more familiar with the code suggest an approach to do this the right way?
Re: CreateFile GENERIC_WRITE on a directory
--On Monday, October 18, 2004 9:46 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not yet happy with my patch, as it's just a hack for this one app and is likely to break other things. In particular, these may break due to use of FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS: dlls/winedos/int13.c dlls/winedos/int25.c programs/winefile/winefile.c
Re: Rename Wine User Guide to Wine User's Guide?
--On Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:00 AM -0400 Kuba Ober [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the apostrophe looks quite right there. Whose guide is it? The user's. Then one has user's guide, not user guide. Would it not be Users' Guide? A guide for *all* users? (Plural) OTOH, I just plugged users guide into Amazon and the results on the first page are all User's Guide (singular).
Re: [WineHQ] s/Forums/Mailing Lists/
--On Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:18 PM -0500 Jeremy Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I committed this, but when you go to the page it calls itself Forums still. My instinct was to s/Forums/Mailing Lists/g on forums.template. But I held off to see if anyone had a better idea on how to layout this page. As it stands right now, it does not make sense. Why not Communicate? Check out the Participate menu at http://fedora.redhat.com/.
Re: CreateFile GENERIC_WRITE on a directory
Opened a bugzilla: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2508
