Wine Directory Mapping sub-system

Jakob Eriksson jakov at vmlinux.org
Tue Apr 20 04:03:30 CDT 2004


Lonnie Cumberland wrote:

>
>
> Just playing with ideas, but I thought that the Wine sub-system might 
> offer a great feature for this in that applications could not do 
> anything even if they were to "Break" Out" as they would be going 
> through a translation layer just like  the Window applications but 
> onlu still being Linux applications.
>
> Any ideas on this?


A Win32 program running on Wine could detect that it was really running 
under linux,
and then do linux syscalls directly.  So theoretically, Wine itself has 
no hard measure of
protection. However, you can define the Wine drives to point to 
someplace innocent, you
can run Wine as a separate unix user, and I guess you can use the usual 
chroot or jailroot
or whatever they are called.


regards,
Jakob




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