ole32: Add a basic OLE client/server test suite. Take 2.

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Jun 5 04:33:30 CDT 2013


Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> writes:

> Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> wrote:
>
>> Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > It seems to be awfully complicated. In particular I don't think you need
>> > a shared mapping plus a pipe plus a mutex just to log tracing
>> > output. Redefining standard macros is also not a good idea.
>> 
>> Launching the server in responce to say CoCreateInstance is out of our
>> control, happens behind the scene, and the server runs in its own console,
>> so it's impossible make a simple redirection by passing in/out handles to
>> CreateProcess. So using a pipe and a passing its write end via shared memory
>> seems like an obvious solution. Without a mutex client and server output is
>> messed up under Windows. Redefining trace allows to write to the pipe in
>> the server and synchronize server output on the client side.
>
> Did my explanation help with understanding the reasons behind the test
> implementation details?
>
>> If you have a suggestion how to simplify all of this please let me know.
>
> It's pretty hard to make any progress without a reponse.

The easy way is to not print traces in the server, you shouldn't need
that once your test is working. But I'm sure you can find other ways,
like using a file in line-buffered mode or things like that. Think about
it some more.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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