[Bug 8766] warn+file gives bizarre output for supressing symlinks

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8766

--- Comment #5 from Scott Ritchie   2008-05-13 19:22:01 ---
I was thinking about this bug a bit.

The first thing to note is that any solution must respect the fact that we
could have multiple Wine prefixes.  Accordingly, just ignoring the
~/.wine/dosdevices folder (or the current prefix) wouldn't work in a good
number of cases.

One possible solution would be to add support to Wine for a file to indicate
supressing the containing folder, sort of like the .cvsignore files.  Then we
could put that file into the ~/.wine/dosdevices folder by default, and this
problem would go away.

Alternatively, we could simply have a blacklist of folders stored within a
single file somewhere in the current Wine prefix (or in the registry).

This does open up an interesting new feature (and perhaps vulnerability), as
applications or users could exclude arbitrary directories from being shown by
Wine.