[Bug 17776] Installing on Fat32 partitions seems to be impossible nowadays

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17776

--- Comment #21 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> 2013-06-20 16:45:13 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> Please reopen this bug...
> It's still there with Wine 1.5+
> 
> <quote>
> Specfically -- and this is a guess -- I think stat() is returning different
> values for files not yet committed to disk. IShield sees this, and assumes it's
> being silently denied access to certain features when in fact what it wanted
> actually happened, it's just being hidden due to this bug.
> </quote>
> 
> The solution then should be (IMHO) to implement a wrapper for the equivalent of
> stat() in Windows that takes into account these differences and returns what
> Windows' apps expect to get...

Please file a new bug (and include an example application that installs on ext4
but not fat32, preferably something that others can download).

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