Wine kernel acceleration module?

Shachar Shemesh wine-devel at sun.consumer.org.il
Sun Jan 19 03:26:58 CST 2003


Francois Gouget wrote:

>Anyway, when compared to the shared memory server it seems to me that
>the main advantage of a kernel module is stability. It is my
>understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) that with the shared memory
>approach, a buggy (or malicious) Wine/Winelib application could crash
>all other Wine/Winelib applications using that server (at least only one
>user would be affected).
>
Whereas with the kernel module, it could panic the entire machine. Yepee!!

            Shachar





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