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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