Re: Wine's Registry Format

2005-06-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:31 AM -0400 Brad DeMorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Samba already uses something called 'TDB', and it's been suggested that the two projects could share a case-insensitive-filename layer based on it; could you look into using that? I've not heard of

Re: Another debugging tutorial

2005-05-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:00 PM +0100 Mike Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie developers, I crave your feedback. Are these actually useful or am I wasting my time? While I haven't had a chance to check these out, I value the resource for future use. I've got some upcoming Windows-based

Re: exeCryptor

2005-05-16 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, May 16, 2005 1:15 PM +0100 Mike Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to whether he can use exeCryptor on a native Linux app, no, I'm afraid that's not possible. It might work in Wine but then you'd have to run the Windows version of this app. I'm wondering how effective the program can

exeCryptor

2005-05-15 Thread Kenneth Porter
http://www.strongbit.com/execryptor.asp Anyone have experience with this on WINE? Another developer pointed this out to me for use with a Windows binary, and is not releasing Linux betas because there's no native Linux equivalent. (The app works fine native in Linux, but the dev want's to

Re: Benchmarking Wine againt XP

2005-04-28 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:55 PM -0700 Duane Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because it was more than 1MB (which I mentioned it the rejection)! That evil moderator! How dare he protect us all from megabyte mail bombs! ;) ;) I'd like to see the results, but I'd rather pull them from a

Re: DOS interrupts in Wine

2005-03-14 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, March 14, 2005 4:50 PM +0100 Sam Lauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Wine correctly implement all the DOS Services and interrupts? What Windows program still uses DOS interrupts?

Re: Wine in the press

2005-03-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:38 PM +0100 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you're interested; issue was completely unrelated to Wine, in fact I couldn't have solved it without Wine This aspect should be pushed more to Windows developers. Real Windows is a black box API, and WINE gives

Re: Hyperthreading and SMP

2005-01-03 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, January 03, 2005 1:15 PM -0500 Kuba Ober [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that something else is going on that probably has little to do with wine but a lot to do with that application's memory access patterns. Hyperthreading has known cases in which if memory is the contention

Re: Windows Admionistrator Rights

2004-12-28 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:12 AM -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I tell Wine to trick an install program into thinking the user has administrator rights under Windows XP? I've switched the windows type in the config file to winxp but the install program for Autocad

Re: Windows Admionistrator Rights

2004-12-28 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:39 PM -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing this means WIne is compiled on this machine in a way that doesn't output debug information? If so (please let me know) then I'll have to look up how to compile to include this output. I installed

Hyperthreading and SMP

2004-12-21 Thread Kenneth Porter
Does WINE have any problem with either Hyperthreading or SMP? I've found that locking the Tribes Vengeance dedicated server to a single logical CPU seems to give me better performance as the server fills with players. CPU usage seems significantly lower (45% versus 65%). Is this likely to be a

Re: Hyperthreading and SMP

2004-12-21 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, December 21, 2004 4:57 PM -0500 Kuba Ober [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kernel version were you running under? Could that be related at all to thread CPU affinity under 2.6? 2.6.8-1.521smp on Fedora Core 2. What's the issue you're referring to?

Re: wine-preloader defunct

2004-12-02 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, December 03, 2004 3:18 PM +0900 Mike McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bug present in Linux 2.6.[0-7] and is fixed in Linux 2.6.8 and later. Running 2.6.8-1.521smp on Fedora Core 2.

Re: wine-preloader defunct

2004-12-02 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, December 02, 2004 11:15 PM -0500 James Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does 'kill -9 processnum' not work? Son of a gun, that did it. I'm so used to avoiding that that it didn't occur to me to try it.

Re: Blocking automatic debugger launch

2004-11-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, November 08, 2004 10:38 AM +0100 Andreas Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, there is: fix the crash! :-) Yeah, I know, it's just that it's not my code and I'm not certain that the authors will be releasing an update. There's a rumor of one but no certainty, as the company (a game

Blocking automatic debugger launch

2004-11-07 Thread Kenneth Porter
I've got an app that seems to be crashing during shutdown. (Tribes Vengeance dedicated server) I'm running it detached inside a screen session, and I don't want the debugger to automatically launch when the app crashes. I just want the thing to die when I send it a quit command. Currently I've

Re: CreateFile GENERIC_WRITE on a directory

2004-10-18 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Sunday, October 10, 2004 3:45 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Opened a bugzilla: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2508 I've since cobbled together a patch to dlls/kernel/file.c that watches for this case and switches the GENERIC_WRITE to a GENERIC_READ. This lets

Re: CreateFile GENERIC_WRITE on a directory

2004-10-18 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, October 18, 2004 9:46 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not yet happy with my patch, as it's just a hack for this one app and is likely to break other things. In particular, these may break due to use of FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS: dlls/winedos/int13.c dlls

Re: Rename Wine User Guide to Wine User's Guide?

2004-10-14 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:00 AM -0400 Kuba Ober [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the apostrophe looks quite right there. Whose guide is it? The user's. Then one has user's guide, not user guide. Would it not be Users' Guide? A guide for *all* users? (Plural) OTOH, I just plugged users

Re: [WineHQ] s/Forums/Mailing Lists/

2004-10-12 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:18 PM -0500 Jeremy Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I committed this, but when you go to the page it calls itself Forums still. My instinct was to s/Forums/Mailing Lists/g on forums.template. But I held off to see if anyone had a better idea on how to layout this

Re: CreateFile GENERIC_WRITE on a directory

2004-10-10 Thread Kenneth Porter
Opened a bugzilla: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2508