--- Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit : > I don't think Viruses are a major issue. The way I see it, there are > currently several functions wineboot fulfils, and we need to consider > > all of them: > > 1. Boot time operations - renaming pending files (wininit.ini and > the > pendingrename registry key) > 2. Startup operations - runservices and runservicesonce and such. > 3. Session startup: > 1. Install related operations - RunOnce > 2. Permenant operations - Run, startup folder etc.
3.2 is managed too by wineboot - for run only at the moment. You can put a key into HKLM/.../CurentVersion/Run called "Test"= "Write.exe". Thats what I want to be disabled by an option (which can be enabled by default if not in the config file.) I want to be sure that nothing else that an app Im trying to test is running. > Wineboot currently focuses on 1, 2 and 3.1. This gives me the ability > to > consider running it on wineserver *shutdown* (and when Alexander > suggested it, it sounded crazy to me, how times change). If we > implement > the startup related activities as well, that will not be an option. There is one solution for that : delay program starting like the font metrics cache generation does. > (the > problem with running it on startup is the race condition between the > renames and the program starting). I think I have a solution to that > problem, in the form of command parameters, but I'll be smarter when > things progress. > Like I said, it can be enabled by default. > As for the virus problem - while I guess I can disable startup, I'm > not > sure it's the right idea. We are attempting to immitate the genuine > Windows environment, and that means, among other things, startups. > The > more we progress, the more habitable our environment is going to be > to > viruses and malwares. I don't think there is much we can do about it. > > The user, on the other hand, would like to have a conveiniant > environment. Having many switches and tweaks will not improve their > ability to control Wine, quite the contrary. ===== Sylvain Petreolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fight against Spam ! http://www.euro.cauce.org/en/index.html ICQ #170597259 "Don't think you are. Know you are." Morpheus, in "Matrix". ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com
