Detecting Wine

Markus Hitter mah at jump-ing.de
Tue Sep 30 06:14:11 CDT 2008


Am 30.09.2008 um 12:55 schrieb Eric Pouech:

> Your design is wrong IMO. You don't handle reparse points at all;  
> you only
> rely on the nature of a drive, which isn't sufficient in most  
> cases. See
> mounting volumes for example where you can mount a whole volume  
> anywhere in
> an NTFS partition.
>
> The correct fix would be to:
> - ensure your code handles those cases correctly (which it doesn't)
> - ensure that wine returns the correct relevant information for remote
> mounted FS (which I'm pretty sure sure it's not done today)

A reasonable 99% shortcut would probably be to parse C: only. This  
should be sufficient for almost all users, especially the clueless  
ones, on Wine as well as on Windows.


MarKus

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