Overriding the check for ownership of a prefix

[Scott Ritchie]

On 9/20/12 3:07 AM, Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> [...]
>> There is one major snag, however: unionfs displays the owner as root until the
>> user has modified/copied it.  This means Wine refuses to launch as the user
>> with the "root-owned" prefix.
>
> Wine checks the ownership of the $WINEPREFIX directory right? So
> wouldn't touching a file in $WINEPREFIX before starting Wine work?
> system.reg would be a good candidate. Alternatively, create/delete some
> other file.
>

Yes, unfortunately unionfs displays a sort of mixed permission 
structure: files are owned by the user once they are modified, but the 
hosting directory name itself can't be modified in this way, which is 
exactly what Wine checks.