Hi Erich, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Erich Hoover <ehoo...@mines.edu> wrote: > In exploring a bug in a game we* ran across an interesting difference > between how Windows versions handle a multiple-processor request. In > essence, this supposedly invalid request will succeed on newer Windows > versions **: > SetThreadAffinityMask(curthread,(-1)); > > So, the question I have is whether Wine should support this behavior > as a matter of course or if it should only support this request when > the emulated version is set to Vista or greater. It seems to me like > this should be supported as a matter of course, since anyone who uses > this "feature" is unlikely to have properly tested it on multiple > versions of Windows. However, I'm unfamiliar with the policy on these > version-difference matters and figured I should ask before putting > something together.
You're right, we should do this as a matter of course. Usually the newer behavior is the saner behavior, so it's what we want to emulate. Please add a test case showing that SetThreadAffinityMask(curthread,(-1)) succeeds, and mark it as broken() if it doesn't. --Juan