Question about ~/.wine/dosdevices/

[Peter Berg Larsen]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:

> Sunday, November 13, 2005, 12:46:34 PM, Peter Berg Larsen wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Brian Vincent wrote:
> >> > I am missing the idear behind how devices are suppose to work.

> >> If any of that documentation is unclear, let me know and I'll rewrite
> >> it to make it better.

> > I have read this, but is does not explain what the behavour is/suppose to
> > be when there exists an /mnt/windows. dosdevices/c: always points to 
> > ../drive_c. So the doc does not answer the questions I asked:

> > But how are dosdevices/c: related to my /mnt/windows? Are files first 

> It doesn't. ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: points to what windows programs will see as a
> "c:" drive.

> Please never point your c: drive to the real windows drive - that won't help
> wine at all but it might brake your windows beyond repair.

Hmm, you are the third to answer me, but none so far have answered my 
questions.

>>>
Are files first looked up in dosdevices/c: and the in /mnt/windows/ if 
not found? 

The reason I ask is that icewind dale on /mnt/windows/ does a 
FindFirstFileA("C:/program...") which wine translates to dosdevice/c: and 
ofcause does not find anything. Am I suppose to make a link to where the 
program is installed, as if I had installed it with wine? 
<<<

So I will try and refraise the questions:

How does wine differentiate whether I have installed a program under 
~/.wine/drive_c/ or under /mnt/windows/, when it does a 
FindFirstFileA("c:/Program Files/")? In the first case it should translate 
it to ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/ and in the latter 
~/.wine/dosdevices/z:/mnt/windows/Program Files/?

If I have a program that does this, should I then make a link from 
~/.wine/drice_c/Program Files/foo to /mnt/windows/Program Files/foo? (This 
will work with this program, but I have newer read such recommendation).

Peter