Going through my usual scanning of all the “-next” Git subsystem branches of new code set to be introduced for the next Linux kernel merge window, a very notable addition was just queued up… Linux 6.10 is set to merge the NTSYNC driver for emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives within the kernel for allowing better performance with Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) and Wine of Windows games and other apps on Linux.

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    In addition to being useful for gamers, these are probably about to be the least likely to change APIs in the kernel.

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      8 months ago

      something something win32 is the most stable api