F Lace wrote:
Hello Wine Folks,
Thanks to google, I learnt about Wine's existence. I havent tried it yet, looking through the website, documentation and source code, I am delighted!
I am browsing through some DLL implementation source one by one, but I got stuck at the first one itself(kernel32/files) and got confused with various file path formats.
Following are some of the path names I could collect reading through different documentation and I also got a few from my friends who are windows developers.
http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-devel/x3016 is your friend
To list my confusion, I have a few questions reading the source: 1. Do UNC paths really start with "UNC\"? I havent seen any, I thought they start with just "\\share\" the Win32 form is \\share\... the NTDLL form starts with UNC\.. 2. Does "\\?\" denote a UNC path that refers to the local machine? no, it's a long path (len > MAX_PATH) in Win32 form 3. Wine's RtlDetermineDosPathNameType_U says //./foo is a device path, what does this translate to this path is given to NtCreateFile? there are a few hardcoded names here, + winecfg:ed drives + VxDs 4. Wine's NtCreateFile seems to specially handle only PIPEs and MAILSLOTs. How does it handle the other types that I listed below? (\Device\..., \??\Volume, :{...}, etc \Device, nor Volume are handled 5. How do you determine from the NT path if it is a path to a device? check wine_nt_to_unix_path_name A+ -- Eric Pouech