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

[Luke Benstead]

2009/4/8 Oleh R. Nykyforchyn <oleh.nyk at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:46:26 -0600
> Erich Hoover <ehoover at mines.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Luke Benstead <kazade at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > ...
>> >
>> > This is probably a really dumb question... but why does wine support
>> > UNIX paths? What is the circumstance where a Windows application will
>> > be trying to access a native file or directory? The only example I can
>> > think of is that an app has specifically been written to be used in
>> > Wine, in which case, shouldn't native UNIX paths be disabled by
>> > default, and perhaps turned on with an environment variable?
>> >
>> > Luke.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> I personally enjoy the ability to use UNIX paths both in calling
>> applications with command-line arguments and in file dialogs (even if it is
>> necessary to use the wrong slash in dialogs).  I imagine that there are a
>> lot of people that appreciate the ability to use this functionality, since
>> you can use the "familiar paths" you do not need to be familiar with the
>> windows drive mapping.
>>
>> Erich Hoover
>
> I also use wine in somewhat weird way. E.g. I use WinEdt editor under wine to
> edit TeX files, and it can launch Linux executables like latex, xdvi, dvips and so on.
> WinEdt takes native Unix paths when it opens files and then passes them to Linux
> executables. I cannot rely on WinEdt the task to convert Win paths to Unix ones.
> Thus, if this feature is dropped, I will not be able to use such mixed Win-Lin
> environments. I believe that Wine should preserve it present behaviour as default
> and turn on some special treatment of Unix paths (with prefixes etc) on demand,
> possibly on per-application basis.
>
> Oleh Nykyforchyn
>
>
>

I disagree. Wine should treat paths *by default* like they are Windows
paths. UNIX paths should be identified in the way that Alexandre
suggested, with a prefix. That's the best way to make sure that all
Windows programs will work as they should, and still allow for UNIX
paths. Don't worry, I don't think anyone is suggesting removing UNIX
paths completely :)

Luke.