RFC: KUSER_SHARED_DATA update patch to fix bug 29168
Vitaliy Margolen
wine-devel at kievinfo.com
Thu Mar 22 08:19:08 CDT 2012
On 03/21/2012 10:19 PM, Joey Yandle wrote:
>>
>> It's been explained several times already that any approach to share data
>> between wineserver and clients is going to be rejected.
>>
>
> Can you point me to such an explanation? I joined wine-devel just
> before posting my RFC. If this has been discussed previously, I'd
> prefer to get the context before wasting my and others' time.
BTW one more thing, this change will most likely break number of copy
protection systems. Such as safedisk. They use user shared date times to
estimate time it took for some kernel operations. And some of those time
intervals are really tight.
-Vitaliy
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