Need ideas about ntoskrnl (WITH ideas)
Ivan Leo Puoti
ivanleo at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 08:53:37 CDT 2005
Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Then we could imagine a generic mechanism to redirect I/O calls for
> specific devices to the wineserver, which could then either handle
> them directly or forward them to ntoskrnl for the case of a native
> driver.
That requires heavy wineserver modifications because we can't do blocking calls, so that means
making it multi threaded, and thread safe. Once wine has figured out it's a native thing it might as
well call ntoskrnl itself.
Ivan.
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