[PATCH 01/10 v2] server: Introduced iosb struct for server-side IO_STATUS_BLOCK representation and use it in irp_call.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Sebastian Lackner <sebastian at fds-team.de> writes:

> I'm not sure if Alexandre has already agreed to this approach, but from my
> point of view it would make sense to do some measurements. How fast is the
> proposed named pipe approach compared to alternatives (unpatched Wine, or
> the Linux-only implementation included in Wine Staging)? 
> In general I like the idea, but I fear that adding significant optimizations
> afterwards will be very difficult.

Performance is of course an interesting question, but correctness comes
first. Unpatched Wine does not provide correct semantics, so it doesn't
really matter how fast it would be.

A Linux-only hack could potentially be used as an optimization, but we
need a working portable implementation first.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org