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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Re: async serial patch - use the service thread for async IO
From:       Mike McCormack  <mike_mccormack () looksmart ! com ! au>
Date:       2000-11-30 23:16:02
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>What you can do is add another type of APC that gets called even when
>the alertable flag is false. This will probably be needed for a
number
>of things anyway.

OK, i'll look into it.

>>... i think we should
>> consider a new architecture for wineserver that localizes a
process's
>> handles to that process, so that the penalties for "server"
accesses
>> are not so high. 
>
>The main problem is that the handles of a process can be manipulated
>from another process with DuplicateHandle. Yes this is stupid but
it's
>not my fault ;-)
>
>Alexandre Julliard

How about "promoting" a handle and it's data from inside a service
thread to the wineserver process if it is duplicated? Only pay the
performance penalty if necessary...

Mike


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