[Wine] Accessing shared memory

Martin Gregorie martin at gregorie.org
Wed Mar 30 04:35:32 CDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 21:37 -0500, vitamin wrote:
> Accessing this shared memory from outside of Wine is not possible,
> unless you are super user (root), or using some special tricks (that
> won't work on Wine itself). On all *NIX systems no process can assess
> other processes' memory, with few exceptions (ex debugger).
> 
...and programs using SVR4 Inter Process Communication library functions
such as shmat(). There are a few access controls, but programs running
under the same user can always use the IPC functions.


Martin






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