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NTSYNC Driver Fix Being Worked On For Proper User Permissions


One of the great new features of Linux 6.14 is the NTSYNC driver being completed for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives so that software like Wine and Proton (Steam Play) can provide for better performance when running Windows games on Linux

A permissions issue has led to the NTSYNC driver not exposing its/dev/ntsync char device being read/write to users by default. A pull request to systemd for udev was posted to add the NTSYNC device group and permissions. In turn Greg is now open to accepting a signed off patch making this default change to the NTSYNC driver.

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