Dmitry Timoshkov <dmi...@baikal.ru> writes: > Joey Yandle <dra...@dancingdragon.be> wrote: > >> > Why do you need to update the data in wineserver and not in the client? >> >> The problem is that the timer updates need to be extremely precise, or >> they are worse than useless. So we can either do that in every wine >> process, or do it once in wineserver and share the memory. >> >> On Windows, the kernel shares this memory with all applications for this >> exact reason. > > It's been continously said that any memory sharing scheme between a client > and wineserver won't be accepeted, ever.
Writable shared memory is unacceptable, but as long as it's read-only from the client there's no problem in principle. -- Alexandre Julliard julli...@winehq.org
