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Re: New version of Wine ?

To: Maurice Sidi <maurice.sidi@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: New version of Wine ?
From: Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:18:02 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
References: <20040704152900.787836800332@mwinf0503.wanadoo.fr>

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Maurice Sidi wrote:

> I am wondering why the Wine port is so old (version from 1999) ? Is it
> possible to have a new version for OpenBSD ?

wine supposedly relies on specific semantics of vfork which openbsd does 
not implement.  the memory sharing behavior of vfork is not specified 
anywhere, and every man page on the planet tells programmers not to rely 
on it.

-- 
desire is not an occupation

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