Emulating Windows system calls, take 2

Posted Jul 27, 2020 1:18 UTC (Mon) by jeremy (guest, #95247)
Parent article: Emulating Windows system calls, take 2

> As a reminder, the intent of this work is to enable the running of Windows binaries that call directly into the Windows kernel without going through the Windows API.

I think you meant to say "Linux kernel" here?

Emulating Windows system calls, take 2

Posted Jul 27, 2020 1:29 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (2 responses)

No, the binaries call directly into the Windows kernel. The goal is to be able to intercept those calls in order to run the binaries on Linux.

Emulating Windows system calls, take 2

Posted Jul 27, 2020 4:18 UTC (Mon) by jeremy (guest, #95247) [Link] (1 responses)

Thanks, it looks like I clearly misread the article. Not only that, but I evidently didn’t read the guideline in the comment posting section saying:

> Please do NOT post typos in the article as comments, send them to lwn@lwn.net instead.

That’s a double whammy on me for my first ever LWN comment. Please excuse me while I crawl inside my shame cube...

Emulating Windows system calls, take 2

Posted Jul 31, 2020 8:03 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

You're a subscriber so I guess it's forgiven ;) (also, this was IMO a genuine question im quest of understanding, not a typo report)