wineserver not reading config files

[Saulius Krasuckas]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, hatky wrote:

> basicly he says this patch is the problem:
> http://cvs.winehq.org/patch.py?id=12187
> 
> sounds right by what the patch is about, didn't try reversing it yet

Hm, maybe.
Though I finally figured out on how to debug wineserver:

[s2 at katleriai s2]$ gdb -q --args /usr/local/bin/wineserver -f -p
(gdb) break file_read_error
Breakpoint 1 at 0x805b91e: file registry.c, line 1114.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/wineserver -f -p

Breakpoint 1, file_read_error (err=0x806d146 "Malformed key", 
info=0xbffffa74) at registry.c:1114
1114        fprintf( stderr, "Line %d: %s '%s'\n", info->line, err, info->buffer );
(gdb) bt
#0  file_read_error (err=0x806d146 "Malformed key", info=0xbffffa74) at registry.c:1114
#1  0x0805bd0d in load_key (base=0x80771d0, buffer=0x8077261 "wine]", flags=1, prefix_len=2, info=0xbffffa74, 
    default_modif=1083324039) at registry.c:1234
#2  0x0805c390 in load_keys (key=0x80771d0, f=0x8076e00) at registry.c:1430
#3  0x0805c56a in init_registry () at registry.c:1508
#4  0x08052fc8 in main (argc=3, argv=0xbffffb14) at main.c:132
#5  0x42015967 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Line 8: Malformed key '[wine]'

Breakpoint 1, file_read_error (err=0x806d1ac "Error creating key", 
info=0xbffffa74) at registry.c:1114
1114        fprintf( stderr, "Line %d: %s '%s'\n", info->line, err, info->buffer );
(gdb) bt
#0  file_read_error (err=0x806d1ac "Error creating key", info=0xbffffa74) at registry.c:1114
#1  0x0805c3ac in load_keys (key=0x80771d0, f=0x8076e00) at registry.c:1431
#2  0x0805c56a in init_registry () at registry.c:1508
#3  0x08052fc8 in main (argc=3, argv=0xbffffb14) at main.c:132
#4  0x42015967 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
(gdb) c 
Continuing.
Line 8: Error creating key '[wine]'

I wonder now what does "+ 1" operation do inside the load_keys() in
server/registry.c:

            if (prefix_len == -1) prefix_len = get_prefix_len( key, p + 1, &info );
            if (!(subkey = load_key( key, p + 1, flags, prefix_len, &info, default_modif )))
 
Last mod of the file is three months old, at least.