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What's going to be in 5.11?

Apparently some features that will allow WINE to capture a lot of the Windows syscalls used for a lot of DRM and anti-cheat, meaning games with those might work through WINE/Proton now:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/10/collabora-expect-their...

Ah they're emulating the windows syscall interface, that's not so bad. I was worried they were making it easier to install rootkits, that seemed pretty weird.

Eventually Linux and NT will converge until the language runtimes will run on both and apps will run on both. Which works better will be largely a question of linker flags.

As If NT and Linux will become implementation detail. Odd

it's not emulating syscalls, but it's adding the ability to trap the syscall instruction and provide a handler in user space

Hey, it seems like this was clarified to not be work towards anti-cheat after all, and seems to have been a misunderstanding.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/jtz08q/collab...

I would assume syscall user dispatch. "Syscall User Dispatch allows for efficiently redirecting system calls and to be done so for just a portion of the binary. The system calls can be redirected back to user-space so they can be handled by the likes of Wine."

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Syscall-...

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