[Wine] Sandboxing syscalls

[James McKenzie]

Yang Zhang wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:12 PM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>   
>> Anyway this is pointless. You don't get the idea of what Wine is and how it works, and I'm tiered explaining.
>>     
>
> Whoa, calm down. Never did I say that Wine ought to do any sandboxing.
> My original email was simply asking what Wine does, and in a
> subsequent email I was just pointing out that it's not impossible to
> block syscalls from userspace.
>
>   
Wine is not designed to block syscalls from userspace.  Windows does not
do this.

This is the point we were trying to make.  The goal of this project is
to reproduce the Windows API, bugs and all.  There are programs that
rely on them.

James McKenzie