Is wine a debugger?

Dan Timis dantimis at mac.com
Mon Jul 28 16:03:00 CDT 2003


Dan Timis wrote:
> I am trying to load a security Windows dll that does not run under a 
> debugger.  When I load the dll I get a SIGTRAP, and then wine breaks 
> in its debugger.
> My understanding is that if I run wine as opposed to winedbg I am not 
> running under a debugger.  But, if there is a crash or some other 
> exception wine will start a debugger.
> I sent some memory dumps to the developer of the security dll, and he 
> said that it behaves like it was running under a debugger.  He's 
> question was something like does wine have an always "on" debugger?

Just in case someone else runs into this problem, the fix is to run 
wine as nt not as win98.  Thanks to Alex Pasadyn for the help.

Dan Timis
Muse Research, Inc.




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