[Wine] Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Sun Mar 23 12:09:35 CDT 2008


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Timeout <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>  Affected string that I remove:
>  config.c
>
>  if (st.st_uid != getuid()) fatal_error( "%s is not owned by you\n", config_dir );

Oh.  Darn.  I thought you had found the patch that caused java
to require root.

It kind of sounds like you always used root, but I'm not sure why.

But that bug (10584) was complicated and confusing; it's an example of
perhaps trying too hard to get an app running when Wine isn't ready for it.
I don't know if we can draw too many conclusions from it.
- Dan



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