[Bug 205] - wcmd infinite loop

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http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=205

fgouget at codeweavers.com changed:

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tony_lambregts at telusplanet.net changed:

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------- Additional Comments From fgouget at codeweavers.com  2001-05-04 19:16 -------
You may have already seen this on the newsgroup but here goes anyway:

This is because wcmd links to the winelauncher instead of wine.
Of course with the CodeWeavers package there's a little twists since (AFAIK),
wine is in fact winelauncher and wine.bin is what one would normally call wine.
So there are a couple of workarounds.
 * find wcmd, it should be a symlink to /opt/wine/bin/wine, if so then delete
wcmd and recreate it as a symlink to /opt/wine/bin/wine.bin
 * or type the following to start wcmd (use an alias, a script...)
    WINEPRELOAD=/usr/bin/wcmd.so /opt/wine/bin/wine.bin

   winelauncher still needs to be fixed to deal with console applications
correctly.


------- Additional Comments From fgouget at codeweavers.com  2001-05-13 13:38 -------
   I sent a patch to wine-patches that fixes this problem. The bug was that
winelauncher was starting the Windows application in the background in order to
be able to both capture its output and get its return code. But starting the
application in the background prevented it from getting to stdin. Depending on
the application this either blocked it indefinitely, or got it to enter an
infinite loop like wcmd.
   With the patch, we still achieve the above but the application is started in
the foreground, allowing it to interact with the console normally. I tested it
with wcmd and others and it works just fine.



------- Additional Comments From tony_lambregts at telusplanet.net  2002-07-23 08:27 -------
Marking as verified

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