Need some advice on shell32

Wed Mar 30 12:11:50 CDT 2016

2016-03-30 4:50 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>:

> The goal of the shell Unix folder is to show a view of the filesystem as
> you would see it in a native Unix app, and it's using direct Unix calls
> in order to do that. It allows showing symlinks, device files, etc. even
> when we have to hide them in ntdll to avoid breaking apps. So I'm not
> sure that replicating ntdll behavior's would be the right thing here.
>

So by that reasoning it would be better then to in shell32 implement a
'simpler' version: show dotted files when the option is activated, but do
not hide stuff like /dev, /proc and WINEPREFIX (since they are native to
Unix)?
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