running wine automatically as a shell for w32 binaries

[Jason Andresen]

Chris BeHanna wrote:

> On Saturday 06 December 2003 10:19, Julian Stacey wrote:
> 
>>>      Hi all,
>>>      I wrote a new imgact function for FreeBSD to start wine
>>>      automatically as a sort of an "interpreter" for windows
>>>      binaries.
>>>      <http://www.mawit.com/~jau/imgact_wine-4.9.patch>
>>
>>Great idea !  If this small diff gets tested & merged into src/
>>automatic MS support will be a real plus.
> 
> 
>     With the weekly proliferation of MS worms, trojans, and viruses,
> do you *really* think this is a good idea?

As long as people aren't using it to run Outlook the risk shouldn't be 
so bad.  Besides, it's hard enough to get real programs to run under 
Wine, I can't imagine getting something that hacks multiple parts of the 
OS and uses undocumented backdoors to hide itself to work in wine is 
going to be easy.


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