[Bug 11112] Does the fatal error if the config directory isn' t owned by the user make sense?

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11112





--- Comment #9 from Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero at arklinux.org>  2008-01-10 11:35:57 ---
The intent of the original patch is to allow a setup where several users, let's
call them "mom" and "dad", can share their Windoze applications without using
the same account. Assuming the users are non-technical, it is safe to assume
that they won't know how to copy registries around every time they install a
new application, and it's also safe to assume that they won't be using the
computer at the same time (at least not with different accounts) -- this is a
pretty common situation and IMO should be addressed in some way.

Of course it also opens the possibility to mess up by running wine
something.exe and sudo wine something.exe simultaneously - maybe the best way
to stop that is creating a lock file in the config directory that is writable
by the user only, and if it's there and owned by another user, abort with an
error message saying "dad is currently using wine, please wait until he is done
or create a separate wineprefix using wineprefixcreate"?


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