Is there any real, practical interest in Wine on Windows?
I've been making some progress in this direction recently (though I
think my approach would be to have a ported, NT-version of
wineserver.exe which just uses native functions of the OS instead of
emulating them over cygwin, which emulates those features using its
own code once again; discussable anyway).
WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.
On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:19 AM, Steven Edwards wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Roderick Colenbrander
<thunderbir...@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't expect Wine itself to ever work on cygwin. Last year I asked
AJ about it and there are some special file handle features which are
needed. This stuff is supported in SUA but at least in the Vista
version this was broken. They MIGHT have fixed it for Win7, so if
Wine
can work on Windows it would need Win7 but still you would need a
version which supports SUA (which are Ultimate and perhaps some
business version).
If anyone is sufficiently interested in the sendrecv message sockets
over file descriptor stuff (I know I am not anymore) there may be an
archived email with a regression test I found showing the problem.
Even though it was now listed as a supported operation, it kinda sorta
worked in limited cases under Server 2003 and hung in others which
Wine stress. I don't even recall all of the details at this point but
it culminated in me presenting my findings to the SUA team developers
and them saying 'that's nice, call our support to file a bug report'.
Since I could not actually file the bug report myself online and
calling Microsoft support is like a $200 (even if they do issue a
refund or not charge your CC if it's a new real bug), I decided to
waste no more time with it.
--
Steven Edwards
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
