ole32: Add a basic OLE client/server test suite. Take 2.

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at baikal.ru
Wed Jun 5 04:16:25 CDT 2013


Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> wrote:

> Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > It seems to be awfully complicated. In particular I don't think you need
> > a shared mapping plus a pipe plus a mutex just to log tracing
> > output. Redefining standard macros is also not a good idea.
> 
> Launching the server in responce to say CoCreateInstance is out of our
> control, happens behind the scene, and the server runs in its own console,
> so it's impossible make a simple redirection by passing in/out handles to
> CreateProcess. So using a pipe and a passing its write end via shared memory
> seems like an obvious solution. Without a mutex client and server output is
> messed up under Windows. Redefining trace allows to write to the pipe in
> the server and synchronize server output on the client side.

Did my explanation help with understanding the reasons behind the test
implementation details?

> If you have a suggestion how to simplify all of this please let me know.

It's pretty hard to make any progress without a reponse.

-- 
Dmitry.



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