[2/3] ntdll: don't treat DOS paths starting with / as Unix paths

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Apr 8 12:21:18 CDT 2009


Luke Benstead <kazade at gmail.com> writes:

> That sounds like a far better way of doing it. Perhaps though, if that
> method was implemented, passing a program path directly into wine
> (wine ~/foo.exe) would be a special case (without a \\?\ prefix). From
> a users point of view that's what I'd expect, as you haven't yet
> started the application (and entered windows land :) ).

Yes, that's my point, the functionality has to be preserved as far as
possible (and not just for the program name). So the heuristic
essentially needs to be moved to higher-level functions, which would
then in turn call the lower-level code with an explicit \\?\unix prefix.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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