WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

[David Gerard]

2009/2/17 Vincent Povirk <madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com>:

> My opinion on this particular issue doesn't matter, but we don't
> strictly prevent Windows apps from seeing the underlying Linux
> environment. Any app can make linux system calls, access the filename
> conversion functions, invoke linux programs, and access the unix
> filesystem using a wine-specific shell extension.


As I understand it, this isn't possible at present. If I'm wrong, I'd
like to know :-)

(This is relevant to, e.g. malware analysis using Wine - where
Wine-aware malware could easily just use int 0x80 to break out of the
Wine environment. Which is one of the hazards of deliberately running
toxic waste, and is why Zero Wine runs as a QEMU virtual machine
rather than on the box directly, for a bit more safety.)


- d.