[PATCH 00/10] Support for dumb picture keychain

[Alexandre Julliard]

Guy Albertelli <galberte at neo.rr.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 10:08 +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> Guy Albertelli <galberte at neo.rr.com> writes:
>> 
>> > 1. The initial problem was that the CreateFile above would not
>> > successfully translate the volume id to the associated Unix file. #3/10
>> > fixed that. 
>> 
>> That should go in mountmgr, it already creates the volume symlinks and
>> manages the devices. What is needed is a way to associate a symlink with
>> a real Unix file so that you can do reads/writes on it, not just ioctls.
>> 
> I now understand what you mean. Like the "dosdevices/c:" symlink,
> mountmgr should create
> "dosdevices/volume{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000043}" as a symlink
> to the same place as the c: one.

No, that's not what I mean. The symlink is a Windows-style symlink, not
a Unix one, and it's created by mountmgr already. It points to something
like \Device\Harddisk1; what you need is to make it possible to do
reads/writes on that device.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org