Re: [ros-dev] Re: [ros-svn] [ea] 18219: A do-nothing crt0 for native NT processes.

[Alex Ionescu]

Emanuele Aliberti wrote:

>   Alex Ionescu wrote:
>
> >   Thanks, I didn't have time last night ( I
> > went to bed at 5AM). Do you 
> >  mind if I rename this to "nt" ? It's the official name of the DDK 
> >  static lib, and would mean that we don't have to have 2 .XML files 
> >  for anyone using the library (for the msvc build).
> >
> >  Anyways, I'm going to commit the code now, I have it on my disk. 
>
>  No problem for me. I didn't even know there was one. What puzzles me 
>  is the ANSI signature for the main function. NT is almost everywhere 
>  Unicode, but in the entry point of a native process...
>  
That's because _wmain didn't really appear until much later. Vista's 
nt.lib now implements NtStartupProcess (calls _main) and 
NtStartupProcessW (calls _wmain). I didn't implement it yet because I'm 
waiting for Thomas's patch to make mingw support _wmain.

Also, speaking of mu-sessions and smss, you might be interested to know 
that Vista now has a completely re-designed LPC called ALPC (you can 
email me if you want more info), as well as a much more "open" and 
public SMSS, now accessible through functions like RtlConnectToSm and 
RtlSendMsgToSm. I'm going to guess that some of the features regarding 
mu-sessions you've wanted will actually be done right this time:)

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu