What would most aid WINE development?
Aneurin Price
wine at shadovald.dyndns.org
Fri Nov 18 04:00:22 CST 2005
Juan Lang wrote:
>>The Windows API is of course public, so my guess is that isn't
>>a huge bar to creating WINE.
>
>
> Unfortunately, you guess incorrectly. While the API may legally be public
> (the interface can't be protected, as far as we know,) it isn't always
> documented. MS uses undocumented APIs very, very frequently in its own
> products, and I don't just mean in its applications: parts of its API
> depend on other, hidden parts of its API. Even the parts that are
> documented are not documented completely. For example, many APIs take
> 32-bit flags parameters, some of whose meanings are documented. But the
> behavior for all possible values is not well-specified, nor are the return
> values. I continue this thread next:
>
And on that note: does anybody know of any documentation anywhere for
msvcrt sopen? Particularly, what the different pmode flags mean (I'm
getting 0x01b6)...
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