annoyance running mingw
Sylvain Petreolle
spetreolle at yahoo.fr
Tue Feb 25 21:33:31 CST 2003
It seems to be true, ported mingwmicq-0.4.10.1-mingw.exe wrote .micqrc
into
my linux $HOME.
> The message is correct, but Wine's behavior is not. I'm pretty
> sure you understand the issue, but for anyone still wondering:
> The problem is strictly theoretical at this point, but we should be
> aware
> of it in case somebody runs into it in the future. Here's the
> scenario:
> * user installs MinGW or some other app that's been ported
> to Win32 but uses Unix-style path separators for win32
> directories
> * a path used by the program happens to exist both in
> the Windows filespace on drive C: (presumably this would be
> something
> installed by the app) and in the Unix filespace.
> For instance, the path /etc/blort/config might be a configuration
> file for a library used both on Linux and installed independently
> onto drive C: by the application.
> * The app tries to open the file on drive C:, and gets the
> file in Linux instead. Bang! The program crashes, or gives
> bad results.
>
> > ... In order to change this behavior we would have to
> > make changes to GetShortPathNameW so that it tries the path with
> the
> > current drive first and then calls this (modified) function. After
> > looking at the code for the last couple of hours I'm sure it could
> be
> > done but I don't know if it is worth it.
>
> Thanks for looking at it.
>
> > At present I think that it would be better to change the message
> >
> > {
> >
> > if ((drive = DRIVE_FindDriveRootW( name )) == -1)
> >
> > {
> >
> > - MESSAGE("Warning: %s not accessible from a configured
> DOS
> > drive\n", debugstr_w(*name) );
> >
> > + WARN("failed to find %s as an absolute unix path
> mapped to
> > configured DOS drive \n",
> > + debugstr_w(*name) );
> > + WARN("assuming it was a really a DOS name")
> > /* Assume it really was a DOS name */
> >
> > drive = DRIVE_GetCurrentDrive();
> >
> > }
> >
> > Or something like that.
>
> Or something like that, yeah. We want to display a hint that
> there might be a misinterpretation of a DOS path as a Unix path.
> - Dan
>
> --
> Dan Kegel
> http://www.kegel.com
> http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045
>
>
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