epoll, LSB
Robert Shearman
rob at codeweavers.com
Mon Nov 22 09:14:37 CST 2004
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I think the source of the problem is a small misunderstanding about
> what LPK.DLL does on windows. It's not where the reordering algorithm
> is. That's in uniscribe. What's there is how this reordering algorithm
> is used for ExtTextOut, DrawText, EditControl and so on. As such, I
> think it's best if we did the same in Wine. Since the interface to
> LPK.DLL is undocumented, I think it's best to use something with
> similar functionality but different name, say "WINELPK".
>
> As for the algorithm itself, I have no objection to it being
> implemented in wine_unicode. I'm just questioning the wisdom of that
> DLL. What does Windows use for the same functionality? If it's not
> there, where is it and why not put it there for wine too?
>
Windows uses ntdll. We don't want to get rid of wine_unicode because it
is also used in wineserver and that obviously cannot use ntdll.
Rob
More information about the wine-devel
mailing list