[PATCH 00/10] Support for dumb picture keychain

[Alexandre Julliard]

Guy Albertelli <galberte at neo.rr.com> writes:

> 1. The initial problem was that the CreateFile above would not
> successfully translate the volume id to the associated Unix file. #3/10
> fixed that. 

That should go in mountmgr, it already creates the volume symlinks and
manages the devices. What is needed is a way to associate a symlink with
a real Unix file so that you can do reads/writes on it, not just ioctls.

> 2. The FILE_NO_INTERMEDIATE_BUFFER flag seemed to require the O_DIRECT
> flag during the Unix open. This was proven by having standard Linux code
> access the device. #1/10 and #9/10 fixed this.

I don't see why you'd need O_DIRECT.

> 3. Linux requires the I/O buffer for special files (/dev/..) to be
> aligned on 512 byte boundary to get the correct data. #4/10 corrects
> that problem for both reading and writing.

That's really ugly.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org