[Wine] Re: Windows Kernel & Executive implementation

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 01:52:32 schrieb richardvoigt at gmail.com:
>
> > With regard to the other things in this thread, if the sysInternals
>  > group at Microsoft is willing to share the interface between their
>  > application and driver, wine could easily implement it (ultimately far
>  > more secure than the Windows solution), then the tools could run on
>  > wine.  Unless you're expecting filemon running in wine to magically
>  > start showing all file access even from applications not using the
>  > Win32 API.
>  What is the use of just running those tools? Aren't there Linux equivalents
>  for it?

I don't know.  Certainly procmon is lightyears ahead of strace in
terms of usability, plus isn't limited to a single process.  A google
found that KDE will be providing a GUI app named "inspektor" but I
couldn't find very much on it.  What is your preferred utility for
filling that niche (logging I/O calls)?

>
>  If it was a test case for better driver support, then yeah, it is useful, but
>  just running those apps by cloning parts of them seems wasted effort to me
>

Those particular apps are useful to the point that every competent
Windows sysadmin knows of them.