[Bug 20098] Wine should, when possible, provide the kernel mode environment for kernel mode drivers

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20098





--- Comment #15 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>  2009-09-25 10:22:46 ---
The "right" solution is not to use mknod. On any decent distro the devices will
be created automatically anyway, and running Windows apps as root is a bad
idea.

Not exporting mknod is not because of security, but because it doesn't scale.
Obviously mknod by itself is a small thing, but there are 300 system calls and
2000 libc functions for which you could make the same argument, many of which
would actually be a lot more useful than mknod which is not something a normal
app is supposed to use. There are many ways to address that issue, you can use
system(), you can use direct syscalls, you can write a Winelib dll, you can add
RDMSR emulation in Wine, or you can just do the right thing and not try to
create the device at all. None of these require adding and maintaining
Wine-specific exports.

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