running wineboot from the server - HELP!

[Shachar Shemesh]

Alexandre Julliard wrote:

>Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel at sun.consumer.org.il> writes:
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>>Can someone who understands the server, and the interaction between
>>the server and normal apps comment on this scheme?
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>>Also, how do I at all make each and every prog load wineboot.dll?
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>IMO you are on the wrong track here. We definitely do not want to do
>boot processing every time an app starts, our startup times are
>already pathetic enough. There are three cases where boot processing
>should happen:
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>1) When an app reboots the system with ExitWindows
>2) When the user explicitly requests it
>3) At login time when starting the Unix desktop
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>2) and 3) are external to Wine, and are the responsibility of the user
>and/or the packager to make sure the proper scripts are modified. So
>this leaves 1) which is basically a CreateProcess("wineboot") at the
>end of ExitWindows.
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I am working on different command line options for the different 
scenarios. I'm having some difficulties with what to do with 2 (I know 
what 1 and 3 should do).

>I don't think we need to worry much about delaying other apps either;
>in case 2) we may want to display a message when everything is done,
>but otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.
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The synchronization problem is only related to the pending rename 
option. This is guarenteed handled by Windows before any Win32 process 
starts. As such, it may (and is actually quite likely) to have a 
post-boot process depend on the renames being complete before it can 
work. Anything that is run from wineboot itself is handled, but I'm 
worried about external utils.

            Shachar

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