Wine and process "names"
Segin
segin2005 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 14:39:37 CDT 2006
Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Sunday, April 30, 2006, 12:31:50 PM, Segin wrote:
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>>Good day, everybody! I have recently done two things:
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>>A. I stopped trying to get Wine to use SDL for a graphics display -- the
>>entire idea just sucks.
>>B. Upgraded to 0.9.12
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>>This has presented me with something quite odd
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>>Windows programs running in Wine had their argv[0]'s exposed to Linux.
>>Let me clarify: When you run 'ps', the first word in the "CMD" field is
>>usually a program's argv[0] and is referred to as the process's "name",
>>but of course you all know that. It seems that Windows processes have
>>their names exported to Linux in the same way, I literally had this in
>>the 'ps' output:
>>13885 pts/1 00:00:21 C:\windows\notepad.exe
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>>Is this a new behaviour of Wine 0.9.12, or have the virus writers
>>finally caught up with us?
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> No it's been patch that AJ committed some time ago.
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> I think you should browse git commit log more often. Especially all of
> AJ's patches are not going through wine-patches.
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I don't use git. I only use CVS. I only *know* CVS, and not too well at
that. Hell, I don't know the CVS options for update to fetch new and
missing directories (e.g. update *everything*)
--
The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the language just sucks.
-- Linus Torvalds
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