Wine 0.9 config applets?

Shachar Shemesh wine-devel at sun.consumer.org.il
Sun Feb 23 16:48:42 CST 2003


Sylvain Petreolle wrote:

> --- Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel at sun.consumer.org.il> a écrit : > I
>don't think Viruses are a major issue. The way I see it, there are 
>  
>
>>currently several functions wineboot fulfils, and we need to consider
>>
>>all of them:
>>
>>   1. Boot time operations - renaming pending files (wininit.ini and
>>the
>>      pendingrename registry key)
>>   2. Startup operations - runservices and runservicesonce and such.
>>   3. Session startup:
>>         1. Install related operations - RunOnce
>>         2. Permenant operations - Run, startup folder etc.
>>    
>>
>
>3.2  is managed too by wineboot - for run only at the moment.
>
Right you are.

>There is one solution for that : delay program starting like the font
>metrics cache generation does.
>
Thanks. I'll look into it.

>>(the 
>>problem with running it on startup is the race condition between the 
>>renames and the program starting). I think I have a solution to that 
>>problem, in the form of command parameters, but I'll be smarter when 
>>things progress.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Like I said, it can be enabled by default.
>
You don't gain any security from that, but it doesn't cost much either.


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Shachar Shemesh
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