support for starting wine as an interpreter by kernel (execve)
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com
Mon Sep 30 13:50:45 CDT 2002
jau at iki.fi (Jukka A. Ukkonen) writes:
> I complained about this matter a week or two ago, and got
> the pretty asocial answer: "This list is for patches only."
> So, no ideas, no discussion.
Discussions go to wine-devel. You can also send patches to wine-devel
if you want to discuss them.
> I have also an imgact_wine() function as an extension for
> FreeBSD kernel to recognise win/dos binaries and start wine
> (or any other windows emulator selectable by a sysctl()
> variable), if the kernel has been compiled with the USER_LDT
> option.
If you are doing the kernel part too, why don't you pass the
interpreter as argv[0]? That's the way binfmt_misc does it under
Linux, and it's a lot more useful since you can use anything you want
as interpreter, you are not limited to specially modified apps.
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Alexandre Julliard
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