vxd deviceiocontrol hmm

[Robert Shearman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wine-devel-admin at winehq.org [mailto:wine-devel-admin at winehq.org]On
> Behalf Of Juan Lang
> Sent: 28 November 2003 20:18
> To: wine-devel at winehq.com
> Subject: vxd deviceiocontrol hmm
>
>
> Folks, I'm looking for advice on implementing
> DeviceIoControl for vnetbios.  It's pretty simple,
> lpvInBuffer is a pointer to an NCB, the only parameter
> to Netbios().
>
> Trouble is, I implemented Netbios() with some state,
> all maintained in netapi32.dll.  I need to load
> netapi32.dll, and keep it open as long as the handle
> to vnetbios is open (if I close netapi32, the state is
> lost).
>
> I could:
> - use a static HANDLE to netapi32.dll in kernel

Yes. Other DLLs do it this way.

> - store the handle in the server

No. The server has no concept of a DLL and shouldn't need to.

> - move all the netbios code to kernel, and use
> DeviceIoControl to call it from netapi32

No. You should keep all of the code in netapi32. There is no need for it to
be in kernel32.

Rob