ReplaceFileW (was: Phoronix: Ubuntu 7.10 + WINE vs. Windows XP)

Stephan Rose kermos at somrek.net
Sun Oct 21 18:07:07 CDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 19:33 +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Reece Dunn" <msclrhd at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 20/10/2007, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> >> Reece Dunn wrote:
> >> > The patch was rejected by Alexandre because the patch was
> >> > implementing that command using Windows API calls,
> >> > when it should be implemented natively as POSIX/GNU calls.
> >>
> >> Really?  Where did he say that?  It'd be nice to link to that from
> >> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7544
> >> - Dan
> > 
> > I asked him about it at WineConf and that is a summary of what he said.
> 
> I can't believe this, probably you misunderstood or misinterpreted something.
> ReplaceFile API needs to abide sharing and access rights rules which are known
> only to wineserver, and not known/available on the libc/kernel level.
> 

Ok so what's the right way to implement this now? If I'm going to do
this, and I most certainly wouldn't mind doing that, I'd like to be able
to do it the right way the first time around.

Thanks,

Stephan




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