[Bug 11145] Can't install some games/programs on FAT32 partitions

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11145





--- Comment #5 from Yolande Haneder <yolande at haneder.biz>  2008-01-12 08:16:57 ---
It is just what I say. The directory is owned by root, even if you have the
full permission.

YOU can save on a FAT because you are saving without using wine. If an
installation source wants to install something there, it can only be through
Wine  and if you are not root the ID on wine will be the one of the user. Now
wine has a check and if user ID != owner of the directory (regardless of
permission), wine is throwing a fatal error and the saving fails.

Now I have series of functions (now) systematically crashing when they try to
save a new temp file in a directory owned by root.

For your reference, you can call it "directory check" and as per 0.9.43 I can
not even revert it anymore *arrggh*.


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