Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:20:15 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: WINE on Cygwin Message-ID: <20051103132015.GR2988@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <005101c5e080$1edf3ef0$8002a7c0 AT dir DOT sparsi DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005101c5e080$1edf3ef0$8002a7c0@dir.sparsi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i 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 main obstacle was that cygwin > doesn't support sendmsg() to send file descriptors across processes, which > means that the wine server cannot work. This in turn means you cannot run > kernel32 or user32. " > > Some further invistigation shows that this is an old issue that has > arisen several times during the course of the Cygwin history. Does anybody > has any clue on the status of this issue ? It's still an issue. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/