Re: New version of Wine ?

[Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org>]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Ted Unangst wrote:

> > Hmmm. OpenBSD has IIRC *never* implemented the memory sharing semantics
> > of 4.3BSD. And Linux neither, and Wine kinda runs on Linux, so it should
> > at least be possible to have Wine run w/o a memory sharing vfork().
> 
> nope.  linux does share.  test below for the curious.

note that enabling memory sharing is not difficult, but it doesn't always 
work and strange problems sometimes result.  since no properly written 
program cares one way or the other, there hasn't been much incentive to 
make the switch and fix the bugs.

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