Wine FAQ edits

[Albert Lee]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Vitaliy Margolen
<wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
> On 02/01/2011 09:47 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Vitaliy<vitaliy at kievinfo.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> -cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files
>>>> +cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files
>>>
>>> This will break if current directory is not $HOME.
>>>
>>
>> 'cd' immediately precedes this.
>
> That still doesn't make the command valid. It won't work from any directory,
> that's the point.

I meant 'cd' is the command preceding this one in the block this is a
part of, if you look at the context. This is explaining how to
navigate to the application's directory and run Wine. I wrote most of
the original text for this section, FYI.

>
>>>> -/bin/sh -c glxgears
>>>> +/usr/bin/env glxgears
>>>
>>> What advantage does "env" has over full featured shell? This is
>>> unnecessary.
>>
>> Why do you need a full shell to run a single external program? It
>> complicates e.g. argument passing if you used this as a template.
>
> Why do you don't want a full featured shell? What of that program is a shell
> script?

 It's exec(2)'ed so it doesn't matter what the program is. That's the
point of the interpreter specification.

>
>>>> -@="/bin/sh run_linx_program acroread \"%1\""
>>>> +@="/bin/sh -c \"acroread `wine winepath -u '%1'`\""
>>>
>>> Have you actually tested this? This won't work for paths with spaces. If
>>> it
>>> will work at all.
>>>
>>
>> Not with spaces, I'll fix this as well.
>
> You still failed to test if it works. What "supposed to work" in shell
> doesn't mean it works in Wine's process exec. So please test your
> suggestions first. With Wine. And don't write shell scripts inside registry.
> That won't work or do what you think it "should".

It works perfectly fine, thank you. It's not parsed by Wine and none
of the embedded characters are metacharacters for the registry. That's the
 reason for explicitly calling /bin/sh -c.

-Albert