Wineboot

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On December 13, 2002 03:13 am, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I am not at all familiar with the wineserver (maybe it's time, eh?). I

Welcome to the club <g>

> got the impression it will be difficult to perform this task both
> without race conditions, and in a way that will put the entire power of
> Win32 at our disposal.

Well, the resonal I suggest we put it in there is to avoid races.
The wineserver is analogous to the kernel in Unix, so it's startup
is the closes thing to a boot.

> If you (or anyone else who has better familiarity with the server) can
> recommend a specific source file and line number where such a change can
> be performed, we can start testing right away.

I was thinking we add it at the very end of the initialization:

Index: server/main.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/wine/server/main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -r1.28 main.c
--- server/main.c       2 Oct 2002 23:49:30 -0000       1.28
+++ server/main.c       13 Dec 2002 14:48:25 -0000
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@

     if (debug_level) fprintf( stderr, "wineserver: starting (pid=%ld)\n", (long) getpid() );
     init_registry();
+    if (wine_needs_reboot()) fork(wineboot); /* asynchronously */
     select_loop();

 #ifdef DEBUG_OBJECTS


But as I said, I have no idea if this is feasible, it just _seems_ to
me that it's the closes thing to a reboot, that's all. In fact, chances
are it's not the right thing to do, but what a heck! :) Maybe Alexandre
can comment on it?

-- 
Dimi.