Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:02:55 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: chris@behanna.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running wine automatically as a shell for w32 binaries Message-ID: <3FD4A0AF.4030505@mitre.org> In-Reply-To: <200312070119.11987.chris@behanna.org> References: <200312061519.hB6FJnIR001376@tower.berklix.org> <200312070119.11987.chris@behanna.org>
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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. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755
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