Problems with VirtualAlloc/Lock

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "Kuba" == Kuba Ober <kuba at mareimbrium.org> writes:

    >> * VirtualLock does nothing in Wine
    Kuba> VirtualLock does nothing in win95,98,ME as well :)

    Kuba> I bet the correct behaviour for wine is to do anything in
    Kuba> VirtualLock only if you set windows version to NT/2000/XP. Did you
    Kuba> do it?

    Kuba> Anyway, mlock() seems to work fine, so this should be
    Kuba> implementable.

    >> * Wine makes no distinction between MEM_RESERVE and MEM_COMMIT
    Kuba> Assuming that we're talking about VirtualAlloc().

In this context, the different allocation strategy with 2.6 ("flexible
mmap") and the chance of handling out Heappointers above 0x80000000 should
be noted.

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