UNC patch & parsing fstab/mtab

[Alexandre Julliard]

Gavriel State <gav at transgaming.com> writes:

> I don't doubt that we don't want to be parsing /etc/mtab on each CreateFile,
> but I will put in a word for some modifications to the configuration 
> philosophy when it comes to drive letters.

Sure, I'm absolutely not opposed to that. It's clear that the current
mechanism is not very user-friendly nor very flexible. The first thing
to do would be to make it possible to change drive mappings at
run-time, and then have them integrated as much as possible with the
Unix environment, detecting all local filesystems, partition types,
media changes, possibly even calling mount/umount from Wine, etc.

What I want to avoid, and your patch is a good example of that, is the
multiplication of ad-hoc hacks that solve a very specific problem
without addressing the more global issue. Both your patch and Stefan's
UNC patch contain pieces that will be part of the global solution; but
they need to fit in a more general framework to be acceptable.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com