[Bug 19873] Automated installation of gecko requires DOS path to root filesystem

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Fri Sep 4 13:22:01 CDT 2009


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19873





--- Comment #23 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-09-04 13:22:00 ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ section 10.1.5:
> > > Consider removing the default Wine Z: drive, which maps to the unix root
> > > directory. This is only a weak defense, but it might help against some attacks.
> 
> You forgot the full context:
> 
> "... The downside to this is you won't be able to run Windows applications that
> aren't reachable from a Wine drive (like C: or D:), so you might have to move
> downloaded installers to ~/.wine/drive_c before you can run them."
> 
> Which is exactly the case of this bug.

As AJ and Jacek pointed out, for Gecko this is fixable.

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