[2/3] ntdll: don't treat DOS paths starting with / as Unix paths

[Luke Benstead]

2009/4/8 Peter Rosin <peda at lysator.liu.se>:
> Hi!
>
> [I just subscribed, I hope I got the forged in-reply-to header right]
>
> Ben Klein wrote:
>> > This is what I meant about magic translation. It *shouldn't* work, but
>> > I'm aware that it does. DOS/Windows uses backslash as the delimiter
>> > when reporting and storing paths. Is the behaviour of magic
>> > translation from foreslash to backslash documented (by Microsoft)
>> > anywhere?
>
> From: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx
>
> + MSDN Library
>  + Win32 and COM Development
>    + System Services
>      + File Services
>        + File Systems
>          + File Management
>            + About File Management
>              + Creating, Deleting, and Maintaining Files
>                * File Names, Paths, and Namespaces
>
> "Note  File I/O functions in the Windows API convert "/" to "\" as
>  part of converting the name to an NT-style name, except when using
>  the "\\?\" prefix as detailed in the following sections."
>
> So, the Win32 API supports /
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> BTW, people using the identity mount technique with MinGW (*) are
> not unlikely to have a /bin/sh on the current drive. Hmmm, but that's
> actually /bin/sh.exe so maybe they are safe? And I guess building
> mingw-gcc on Windows isn't "real work" (that's the main reason for
> the identiy mount, IIUC). Anyway, that's just another stab at the
> python test suite.
>
> Building stuff using MSYS/MinGW (or Cygwin) inside wine which
> requires an identity mount is surely just for fun. Anything MSYS
> or Cygwin inside Wine is for fun. The identity mount technique
> clearly does not work with Wine.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> (*) Google: mingw "identity mount"
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This is probably a really dumb question... but why does wine support
UNIX paths? What is the circumstance where a Windows application will
be trying to access a native file or directory? The only example I can
think of is that an app has specifically been written to be used in
Wine, in which case, shouldn't native UNIX paths be disabled by
default, and perhaps turned on with an environment variable?

Luke.