On Sunday 19 January 2003 20:26, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Francois Gouget wrote: > >Anyway, when compared to the shared memory server it seems to me that > >the main advantage of a kernel module is stability. It is my > >understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) that with the shared memory > >approach, a buggy (or malicious) Wine/Winelib application could crash > >all other Wine/Winelib applications using that server (at least only one > >user would be affected). > > Whereas with the kernel module, it could panic the entire machine. Yepee!! Sure about that?. I've been able to lock the entire machine simply by running a DirectX game under Wine on the back of faulty X drivers! (would a kernel module allow debugging of such problems via Kernel debugging features?) > > Shachar
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