[Bug 17195] NamedPipe datagrams need to be _really_ datagrams

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17195

--- Comment #40 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> 2011-12-16 12:16:02 CST ---
dan, apologies for not making this clearer: potentially hundreds of thousands
of file handles will be required.  this patch is NOT production-suitable, you
really do have to bite the bullet and fix wineserver properly.

this patch is for "demonstration purposes" ONLY and it would be a severe bug if
it were included, as it could be used to attack a system through resource
starvation simply by opening hundreds or thousands of NamedPipes and sending
hundreds or thousands of messages on each pipe.

sorry, dan - this is about limitations in the design of wine that simply
haven't had to be tackled up until now: it's now time to deal with them if wine
is to ever progress to the next level of interoperability.

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