[Bug 2356] HD reported as device when mountpoint matches logical link in dosdevices

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2356

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2004-13-07 04:14 -------
I can verify that this is also the case for wine-20040615.

If I have a symlink in ~/.wine/dosdevices that points to a directory that is
listed in /etc/fstab, then some applications are unable to open that drive in
their file open/save dialogues (notably, word2k and excel2k).

i.e.:

e: -> /tmp

/dev/hda6  ->    /tmp

Causes word2k and excel2k to be unable to access the e: drive from the file-open
and file-save dialogues. An "access denied" error is shown if you go via the
icon, but not if you go via the quick-pick dropdown box at the top (silently fails).

If, however, the symlink is to a directory that is not listed in fstab, then it
works fine.

i.e.

e: -> /tmp/wine/

/dev/hda6  ->    /tmp

then all works as desired.

Now this is only a *workaround* and it only works for some mount points... the
case making / your z: drive is an obvious example that can't be easily solved in
this way.

This is a case of regression... this used to work fine and now doesn't.

It also means that the treatment of the drives is different in wine depending on
whether they are listed in fstab or not... that doesn't seem to be logical.