Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Informações wrote: > Can anyone point me to any reference covering the implementation of the > missing sendmsg functionality (exchanging file descriptors across processes) > ? Any (incomplete) piece of code ? Any help ? Stevens, "UNIX Network Programming Volume 1", chapter 15, section 7. --

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 16 10:02, Informa??es wrote: >Guys, > >Sorry for not getting involved with this discussion before. > >For those interested in more details about this topic, I included > several good references in this message. > >I can think of many reasons why someone would want to run

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-16 Thread Informações
Guys, Sorry for not getting involved with this discussion before. For those interested in more details about this topic, I included several good references in this message. I can think of many reasons why someone would want to run WINE under Cygwin and my reason, put shortly, is:

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:56:26PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Leon Brooks wrote: >>One obvious application -- facing me now -- is to run Win 3.11 and Win >>95 applications that break under XP but not under WINE. > >I suffer no such malady! If there is a Win 3.11 or Win 95 application >that's hav

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Leon Brooks wrote: One obvious application -- facing me now -- is to run Win 3.11 and Win 95 applications that break under XP but not under WINE. I suffer no such malady! If there is a Win 3.11 or Win 95 application that's having a problem running under XP then the chances are high that ther

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-13 Thread Leon Brooks
Flu-X AKA Informações wrote: >> Any other comments regarding the bulding/execution of the Wine under >> Cygwin would be very welcome. >> FLu-X Andrew DeFaria responded: > I guess I don't see the point. One obvious application -- facing me now -- is to run Win 3.11 and Win 95 applications that

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 18:25 -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: > It would seem to me that making an arbitrary window application use > X11 to draw its windows would involve cygwin. > Would it be appropriate to move this to the Cygwin-X list? There has been discussion in http://cygwin.com/ml/win32-x11/200

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:25:17PM -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: >It would seem to me that making an arbitrary window application use >X11 to draw its windows would involve cygwin. Not necessarily. >I recognize that as moderator, it's your call. If you say nothing more >on it, nor shall I. > >Would i

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Eliah Kagan
On 11/3/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:20:57PM -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: > >On 11/3/05, Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Moreton wrote: > Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between t

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:20:57PM -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: >On 11/3/05, Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Moreton wrote: Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between the program and windows. You could trace all registry or file

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Eliah Kagan
On 11/3/05, Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Moreton wrote: > > > > Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between the program and > > > windows. You could trace all registry or file access of a program. Wine > > > would be useful for remot

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Joe Smith
I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under Cygwin as Cygwin already runs on Windows so if your want to run a Windows apps, well then just run the Windows app! Well how about to support WINE development?

RE: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >>> But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of >>> protection. You would need Xen / VMWare / etc for that. >> >> Oh, I stand corrected. You mean it doesn't even do >> virtual-drive-in-a-file-on-the-real-HD then? That's a sham

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: > > But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of > > protection. You would need Xen / VMWare / etc for that. > > Oh, I stand corrected. You mean it doesn't even do > virtual-drive-in-a-file-on-the-real-HD then? That's a shame. Well, considering WINE s

RE: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> Well, how about sandboxing? It's the ideal way to test out a virus or >> other suspect warez: run it on a virtual machine where it can't escape >> into your real one. > > But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of > protecti

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: > Well, how about sandboxing? It's the ideal way to test out a virus or other > suspect warez: run it on a virtual machine where it can't escape into your > real one. But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of protection. You would need Xen / VMWare /

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Moreton wrote: > > Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between the program and > > windows. You could trace all registry or file access of a program. Wine > > would be useful for remote program usage since it exports the display > > via X11. > > Thi

RE: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Moreton wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:00:51 GMT, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > >> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:41 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >>> I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running >>> Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under >>> Cygwi

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Andy Moreton
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:00:51 GMT, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:41 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running >> Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under >> Cygwin as Cygwin already runs on

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:41 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running > Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under > Cygwin as Cygwin already runs on Windows so if your want to run a > Windows apps, well then just ru

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Informações wrote: Hey All, I'm seriously interested in making the WINESERVER work under Cygwin and have been invistigating some of the issues related to this matter. One of the WineHQ developers informed me that: "... the last time someone tried, the main obstacle was that cygwin

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 3 11:08, Informa??es wrote: >Hey All, > >I'm seriously interested in making the WINESERVER work under Cygwin and > have been invistigating some of the issues related to this matter. One of > the WineHQ developers informed me that: > >"... the last time someone tried, the mai

WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Informações
Hey All, I'm seriously interested in making the WINESERVER work under Cygwin and have been invistigating some of the issues related to this matter. One of the WineHQ developers informed me that: "... the last time someone tried, the main obstacle was that cygwin doesn't support send