On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Austin English <austinengl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course, Wine is open source, so if someone wants to edit it for > that purpose, by all means, do so. I'm not sure that Wine _should_ do > so though, at least, not now. Networking on a per app basis I can see > an argument for, since Windows Firewall is now included and provides > such a feature.
Can't SELinux or something similar disable network access per-application? I would think that this kind of functionality should be provided by the OS, not by Wine. (Having control over what can / can't get to the network can be real handy for purposes such as server-hardening.) (Solaris Trusted Extensions seem to provide this kind of functionality...) Wine should probably at least provide APIs that can be used by anti-malware applications... (I'm not sure about recent applications, but, IIRC, older ones under Windows 9x used to use drivers for on-access scanning which is not currently supported in Wine) Gert
