Re: ReplaceFileW (was: Phoronix: Ubuntu 7.10 + WINE vs. Windows XP)

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Reece Dunn" <msclrhd(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20/10/2007, Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote:
> > Reece Dunn wrote:
> > > The patch was rejected by Alexandre because the patch was
> > > implementing that command using Windows API calls,
> > > when it should be implemented natively as POSIX/GNU calls.
> >
> > Really?  Where did he say that?  It'd be nice to link to that from
> > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7544
> > - Dan
>
> I asked him about it at WineConf and that is a summary of what he said.

I can't believe this, probably you misunderstood or misinterpreted something.
ReplaceFile API needs to abide sharing and access rights rules which are known
only to wineserver, and not known/available on the libc/kernel level.

-- 
Dmitry.