Re: annoyance running mingw

[Sylvain Petreolle]

It seems to be true, ported mingwmicq-0.4.10.1-mingw.exe  wrote .micqrc
into
my linux $HOME.
> The message is correct, but Wine's behavior is not.  I'm pretty
> sure you understand the issue, but for anyone still wondering:
> The problem is strictly theoretical at this point, but we should be
> aware
> of it in case somebody runs into it in the future.  Here's the
> scenario:
> - user installs MinGW or some other app that's been ported
> to Win32 but uses Unix-style path separators for win32
> directories
> - a path used by the program happens to exist both in
> the Windows filespace on drive C: (presumably this would be
>
> something
>     installed by the app) and in the Unix filespace.
>     For instance, the path /etc/blort/config might be a configuration
>     file for a library used both on Linux and installed independently
>     onto drive C: by the application.
> - The app tries to open the file on drive C:, and gets the
> file in Linux instead.  Bang!  The program crashes, or gives
> bad results.
>
> > ... In order to change this behavior we would have to 
> > make changes to GetShortPathNameW so that it tries the path with
>
> the
> > current drive first and then calls this (modified) function. After 
> > looking at the code for the last couple of hours I'm sure it could
>
> be
> > done but I don't know if it is worth it.
>
> Thanks for looking at it.
> > At present I think that it would be better to change the message
> >
> > {
> >    if ((drive = DRIVE_FindDriveRootW( name )) == -1)
> >
> >    {
> >
> > -
> >        MESSAGE("Warning: %s not accessible from a configured
>
> DOS
> > drive\n", debugstr_w(*name) );
> > -
> >        WARN("failed to find %s as an absolute unix path
>
> mapped to
> > configured DOS drive \n",
> > -
> >               debugstr_w(*name) );
> > -
> >        WARN("assuming it was a really a DOS name")
> >      /* Assume it really was a DOS name */
> >
> >      drive = DRIVE_GetCurrentDrive();
> >
> >  }
> >
> > Or something like that.
>
> Or something like that, yeah.  We want to display a hint that
> there might be a misinterpretation of a DOS path as a Unix path.
> - Dan
>
> -- 
> Dan Kegel
> http://www.kegel.com
> http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045

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