[Bug 19873] Automated installation of gecko requires DOS path to root filesystem

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19873





--- Comment #16 from Michael Abbott <michael at araneidae.co.uk>  2009-09-03 13:04:11 ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> The point was that removing the z: drive mapping leads to other breakages
> besides this bug. Making Gecko installation not require DOS path won't help
> with other things.

What other breakages?

It seems to me sensible to consider making it possible for Wine to work
correctly *without* a link from Windows to the rest of the system.

As it stands, wine provides a kind of jail which it can be fairly hard for
applications to break out of; certainly pure Windows applications which are
ignorant of Wine are likely to be jailed.

Compelling the use of Z: pointing to the root of the system completely breaks
this jailing, and makes it possible for Windows applications to, perhaps quite
innocently, cause all sorts of problems.  

The most obvious example of this is the one I cited: a Windows application
which for whatever reason decided to scan the ENTIRE file space -- I noticed
because it took such a long time (and caused annoying problems with troublesome
nfs mounts), and from that point I've *always* deleted Z: immediately after
creating a fresh WINEPREFIX.  

This issue with the broken gecko update is the only problem I've ever noticed
from deleting Z:, so I think there's no reason not to fix the gecko installer's
pointless dependency on a Windows concept.

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