On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Luke Benstead kazade@gmail.com wrote:
This is probably a really dumb question... but why does wine support UNIX paths? What is the circumstance where a Windows application will be trying to access a native file or directory? The only example I can think of is that an app has specifically been written to be used in Wine, in which case, shouldn't native UNIX paths be disabled by default, and perhaps turned on with an environment variable?
If an app is written for use in Wine, there's an API it can use specifically for converting Unix paths to Windows paths.
I have no idea why this is deemed useful. Then again, I'm also the guy who at the start of the thread said this is stupid and we really should stop.
Vincent Povirk