Wine FIXME Report 2009 Aug - Dec

Andrew Eikum andrew at brightnightgames.com
Tue Jan 5 19:22:44 CST 2010


On 01/05/2010 07:02 PM, Reece Dunn wrote:
> 2010/1/6 James McKenzie<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>:
>> Reece Dunn wrote:
>>> 2010/1/5 Michael Stefaniuc<mstefani at redhat.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>>>    877  | 209   | shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
>>>>
>>>
>>> DllCanUnloadNow is a hint to the operating system to know if it can
>>> free the library, unloading it from memory. It is fine for this to
>>> always return S_FALSE (i.e. never unload) -- I believe there was
>>> discussion around this for mshtml, shdocvw or similar DLL.
>>>
>> Just my 2eurocent here, but this is very ugly and misleading to the
>> average Wine user (including me.)  It might be a good idea to clear this
>> one up if possible.
>
> What do you mean?
>
> Do you mean something like
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms690368%28VS.85%29.aspx for
> an explanation?
>

I think he means that "FIXME" implies that something needs to be 
"fixed", and that that particular FIXME pops up a lot.

Andrew



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