[Bug 20643] World of Warcraft patcher tries to change folder permissions

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20643


Erik <erikmm at xs4all.nl> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Erik <erikmm at xs4all.nl>  2009-11-12 05:55:56 ---
I see this behaviour as well but after the patch.It seems that the patch
consists of a new version of Launcher.exe that not only tries but succeeds in
changing directory permissions of the WoW directory from drwxr-xr-x into
d---r-x---, which makes the directory completely inaccessible. This makes it
impossible for the launcher tot start WoW,exe. Rumors are that this is intended
by Blizzard to avoid multiboxing (which simply can be avoided by starting
multiple instances of WoW.exe).
A quick and (very) dirty workaround is to restore the permissions by hand while
Launcher.exe is still active.
Strangely when running the program from an NTFS partition directory permissions
are left alone or restored properly...
This behaviour is seen in all Wine versions 1.1.13-1.1.32.

Funny thing is: people running WoW on native Windows platform are reporting
exactly the same problem.
I'm not convinced this is really a Wine bug...it seems to me that Blizzard's
developers could use some education..:-)

Best regards, Erik

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