REQUEST: symlinks behaviour change

Sylvain Petreolle spetreolle at yahoo.fr
Sun Aug 25 14:23:25 CDT 2002


You're right for benefits.
But will wine have the same behavior as before ?
In your example, the symlink for regsrv32 is replaced.
We could have a functionnality loss : will the regsrv32 still be
built-in without its symlink ?

> However, some applications needs to replace this files.
> 
> I noted this with the Internet Explorer Installer (5.01 sp1 and 6.0).
> If it cannot
> replace the c:\windows\system\regsrv32.exe file it will abort.
> 
> However, as the c:\windows\system\regsrv32.exe is a symlink and wine
> has permition
> to move/delete this symlink, I would link to suggest that wine
> first delete the symlink file when an application tries to write on
> it.
> 


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