Emulating Windows system calls in Linux

Posted Jul 11, 2020 13:30 UTC (Sat) by Hi-Angel (guest, #110915)
In reply to: Emulating Windows system calls in Linux by pbonzini
Parent article: Emulating Windows system calls in Linux

> No, you would:
>
> * patch WINE libraries (the only ones that should issue Linux system calls) to
> go through a trampoline page

You can't achieve anything here by patching WINE libs because as the prev. author
said, there's no problem with apps that go through them. The problem being
discussed is that some apps make system calls without going through WinAPI/WINE
libs. Let me quote the original mail:

> Modern Windows applications are executing system call instructions directly
> from the application's code without going through the WinAPI. This breaks Wine
> emulation, because it doesn't have a chance to intercept and emulate these
> syscalls before they are submitted to Linux.