[Bug 1283] - bsd -automount'ed drives ignored (e.g. "A:" on /vol/a via autofs master.vol)

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http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283

tony_lambregts at telusplanet.net changed:

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------- Additional Comments From tony_lambregts at telusplanet.net  2003-02-16 12:41 -------
Excellent bug report.

It seems that the cause of the problem is that the mount point for your floppy
does not exist untill autofs mounts it. So another fix for your problem is to
define a mount point (create that directory). That however seems to be defeating
the way that autofs works. 

I am fairly familiar with this portion of wine and how it behaves on linux. I
would also like it changed but for different reasons.  

let me explain. In general a mount point has to exist in order to mount a
device. That mount point has a st_ino number. When a device is mounted that
number is different from when no device is mounted. The current (ASCII) code for
returning the drive letter fails when the ino number changed. All this however
is (almost) irrelevant to your patch.

What is missing from this patch is the documentation. The sample config and
users guide need to be updated to do this properly. 

documentation/samples/config
documentation/configuring.sgml

Are the relevant files. If you need help with this aspect please tell me.
 

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