wine users - Sep 2009 - How should a WIN32 App read MSRs when running under Wine ?

I am trying to get SIV (http://rh-software.com/) to run well on Wine and am
wondering what the best way to read MSRs is without making SIV a full winelib
app.  Given *nix has type 202 devices such as /dev/cpu/0/msr that can be created
my mknod, my first idea was to ask for a wine_mknod() I could call to tidily
create these (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20081).  This was rejected
on the grounds Windows programs should not be using mknod().  My next idea was
for Wine to either run my kernel driver in kernel mode (I realised this was not
going to happen, but I felt a good please to start) or failing that to catch the
RDMSR exception, do the appropriate mknod() based on the calling thread
affinity, read /dev/cpu/<n>/msr and continue execution
(http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20098).  This too is being met with a
negative response  :(.  Currently I have run out of ideas as to how to do this
in a tidy way.  My code currently does _system( "/bin/mknod ...")
which works, but is tacky !

Does anyone know how I can achieve this in a tidy manor without making SIV a
winelib app please ?

red-ray wrote:
> My code currently does _system( "/bin/mknod ...") which works,
but is tacky !
Why are you doing mkdone anyway?

Most distros using udev now days. That means devices are "created"
automatically in /dev. Make sure you have loaded "msr" kernel module.