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Re:Linux as co-operative Windows process by badc0ffee on Sunday February 09, 2025 @12:09PM (#42991905)
It's been years since I used Wine, but I think it just runs each Windows process in its own Linux process. There's no Wine "kernel" that needs to manage virtual memory or isolate multiple processes.
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Re:Linux as co-operative Windows process by lproven on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:39PM (#43003575)
AIUI this is correct, yes.
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Re:Linux as co-operative Windows process by quotemstr on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:24PM (#43007809)
Sort of. Wine still has a privileged (w.r.t. other wine processes) manager process that handles coordination between other wine processes. Whether that's a "kernel" is a matter of opinion.
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