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该项目主要是将wingdows程序直接运行在linux上

            The Linux Unified Kernel Project
            	--Windows Processes Creating

Why
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The previous release of the Linux Unified Kernel implemented the Windows system 
call mechanism and ported Kernel-win32 into the kernel, but no actual Windows Process 
nor Thread was created. Only a handful of simplest test programs can run on that release.

With this release, Windows Processes and Threads can be created, data structures 
like EPROCESS and ETHREAD are created inside the kernel, and certain specific 
Windows application programes can run as real Windows Process and Thread on 
the kernel.

How it can be used
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After patching the Linux kernel(2.6.13) and Wine(0.9.11), installing the provided, 
you can run the programs listed in the "test-programs" file.

Implemented 
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This version of Linux Unified Kernel provides a module to load PE format executable 
files, so that users can run Windows softwares in a simpler way with no other 
applications' assistance. Windows process can be created by Linux or Windows parents, 
without the wine-preloader support.

The Windows APC mechanism is partially implemented for loading DLLs, and it will be 
further polished in the future.

Data structures in Wine Server are still there, because most of the Windows system 
calls continue to go through the server. However, with the Windows Process/Thread 
mechanism implemented inside the kernel, along with the previously implemented system 
call mechanism based on "int 2e", a platform is now available for porting particular 
Windows system calls from the server into the kernel, one by one, or group by group. 

Not-implemented
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Some simple applications may work on this release, but a multithreaded application 
can not yet.

So far, most of the related Windows native API functions are still from Wine, only a 
few of them has been replaced with actural Windows system calls.

Future work
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To replace more and more Windows system call implementations from the Wine server
into the kernel.

Currently, the softwares listed still depend on the built-in DLLs that are provided 
by Wine, and therefore the Wine server is still critical to the current Linux Unified Kernel.
As result, more work, like object management and particular system call replacement, is to be 
done in the future releases.