Should winedevice.exe in the end be able to load file system drivers as well?
Paul Vriens
paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com
Thu May 8 01:03:01 CDT 2008
Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> 2008/5/7 Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The comment in winedevice.exe says "Service process to load a kernel driver".
>>
>> But will winedevice.exe in the (far ?) future be the vehicle to load file system
>> drivers as well.
> I think the idea of loading filesystem drivers is insane at best,
> unless you plan to add a whole vfs layer, or modify the captive driver
> (NTFS binary driver loader for the linux kernel) to work on wine. And
> even that probably depends on the vfs layer. Feel free to correct me
> if I'm wrong.
>
> Cheers,
> Maarten.
>
It's not so much that I want the driver to actually work :-).
I was experimenting with Mozy backup (http://mozy.com/) with respect to bug
12030 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12030).
Installation stalls when the file system driver is installed. Changing
services.exe to route this driver via winedevice makes the installer work
"normal" but crashes (of course?) the driver.
When I then remove the patch from services.exe and try to start anything I see a
1 minute delay in execution. This is due to us trying to launch the driver
(without winedevice) and sending a start control to it. It looks like this
introduces a timeout.
So again, I'm not trying to get this driver running but want to get rid of that
timeout.
--
Cheers,
Paul.
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