wine robustness?

[Alexandre Julliard]

Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> writes:

> Say, how much address space protection is there in Wine?
> If a Wine process follows a wild pointer or passes garbage
> arguments to a Windows function call, are Wineserver
> and the other wine processes protected?

Yes, everything is protected. The only exception is when using some of
the native Win9x dlls that have shared data sections, in that case a
wild pointer can crash other processes. But otherwise it shouldn't
happen; and the wineserver should never crash no matter what the app
does.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com