Re: Wine kernel acceleration module?

[Mathew McBride]

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