On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Peter Andersson wrote: > Hello! > Perhaps someone can give me a good answer to this question. > Please give me a direct answer, I have allready been trouh the wine > FAQ:s , docs, code, etc. > > I know DOS syscalls is made using interupts (int instruction) but, > is Windows/NT syscalls made the same way. What are Windows/NT syscalls? Win32 apps doesn't make any syscalls, they just call the system DLLs (which is just shared libraries). Wine implements those DLLs in its own way. > How does wine stop these instructions from reaching the unix kernel? If you're talking about interrupts, the ones that DOS/Windows app may use aren't accepted by Linux, so a segmentation fault happens when an app tries to issue such an interrupt. Wine can catch that segmentation fault by installing a SIGSEGV signal handler. If you're talking about the Win32 API, then Wine just links the app to its own version of that API, so it calls into the Wine-implemented DLLs. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
