[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 #18 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>  2008-01-11 04:40:50 ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> I think that should be a registry switch (somewhere in Software\Wine registry
> branch) and a command-line option to disable this check. This will solve all
> problems. For example:
> 
> wine --disable-owner-check notepad
> 
> Or (short switch):
> 
> wine -d notepad
> 
> Having ability to disable unnecessary checks is the standard in the Linux
> World. Especially this is true for checks that are exist only as protection
> from newbie users (or users who don't understand what he/she is doing). Expert
> users should be able to do what they want to do.

The check can be disabled by creating a temporary wineprefix dir that contains
symlinks to the real files. For an expert user that's surely not harder than
specifying a command line option.


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