[Bug 58304] New: Question on programs that use files with $ in file names?

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Bug ID: 58304
           Summary: Question on programs that use files with $ in file
                    names?
           Product: Wine
           Version: 10.8
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Use Pegasus Email, and it works fine under one except if on tries to use the
IERenderer extension. With the extension installed, if one tries to open an
html email the call to the IErenderer.dll causes Pegasus to hard crash..

The Pegasus creates some temp files from the email message, and uses
WPM$xxx.PM$ format for files. Was thinking perhaps in the passing of filename
with $ inside them might cause issue since Linux treats the $ as marking a
variable?

With IERender extion it creates these two file
     1110  05-16-2025 08:18   WPM$M1PL.PM$
    56167  05-16-2025 08:18   WPM$SXGZ.PM$

With extension uninstalled it creates these 3 files
     1536  05-16-2025 08:15   STO30e6.tmp
     1536  05-16-2025 08:15   STO30e7.tmp
    56167  05-16-2025 08:15   WPM$Z65Z.PM$

Note both of the 56167 byte files are identical??

The purpose of extension is to better handle displaying html messages.
Without it, some messages don't display as they should. One can then opt to
open messages in a browser, and they will display fine, but then replying
doesn't work.

Don't know if changing the $ to a different character (perhaps _) would avoid
issue.

[Bug 58304] Question on programs that use files with $ in file names?

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--- Comment #1 from Ken Sharp  ---
$ is a valid character in a filename. It should be being passed as the
character rather than a variable.

Can you supply a +file trace?

Do you have download links for Pegasus and IERender? Their website wouldn't
load for me.

[Bug 58304] Question on programs that use files with $ in file names?

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--- Comment #2 from Michael Setzer II  ---
pmail.com was hosted on Amazon S3 site, but in Nov 2024 owner lost ability to
update the website via Amazon, and they were of no help. So he is working to
setup domain again. But currently nothing.

I have the lastest version of the Pegasus available on one of my sites.
https://setzco.dyndns.org/w32-481-pb3.exe

IErenderer is included install, but it has updates since included version.

https://www.pmpgp.de/renderer/History.htm

DD-MM-YYYY
12.05.2025 05:30 (CEST): Version 2.7.2.6

How would one run a file trace.

[Bug 58304] Question on programs that use files with $ in file names?

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--- Comment #3 from Michael Setzer II  ---
Created attachment 78655
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78655
test fincy html message - CNM extension.

Test message that causes crash.

[Bug 58304] Question on programs that use files with $ in file names?

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--- Comment #4 from Ken Sharp  ---
> How would one run a file trace.

Start Wine with a WINEDEBUG environment variable and capture the input:
$ WINEDEBUG=+file wine program.exe > logfile.log

[Bug 58304] Question on programs that use files with $ in file names?

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--- Comment #5 from Michael Setzer II  ---
Created attachment 78656
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78656
On error shows backtrace info??

Run with --trace >to file
But file results in 0 byte file
FOr both error run and clean rune wih IERender uninstalled?

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--- Comment #6 from Michael Setzer II  ---
Created attachment 78657
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78657
logfile created

Didn't see any obvious error lines?
But seeing lots of not found lines, but files it says not there are there, but
names are shows as mixed case, while files are mostly all caps.

File is 44436 lines long?

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--- Comment #7 from Michael Setzer II  ---
Created attachment 78658
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78658
winedb backtrace created during the run to create log file.

winedb backtrace created after logfile created.

Not seeing an exact error line. Just something cases a critical error, and then
winedb is called.

[Bug 58304] Question on programs that use files with $ in file names?

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--- Comment #8 from Michael Setzer II  ---
Looking at logfile.log
line 42180 find this?

0128:trace:file:append_entry long L"." short L"" mask L"WPM$63U6.PM$"
0128:trace:file:append_entry long L".." short L"" mask L"WPM$63U6.PM$"
0128:trace:file:append_entry long L"STOe63e.tmp" short L"" mask L"WPM$63U6.PM$"
0128:trace:file:append_entry long L"WPM$GSQ9.PM$" short L"" mask
L"WPM$63U6.PM$"
0128:trace:file:append_entry long L"WPM$470U.PM$" short L"" mask
L"WPM$63U6.PM$"
0128:trace:file:append_entry long L"wine_ppds" short L"WINE~A51" mask
L"WPM$63U6.PM$"
0128:trace:file:append_entry long L"STOe63d.tmp" short L"" mask L"WPM$63U6.PM$"
0128:trace:file:append_entry long L"WPM$ZSN2.PM$" short L"" mask
L"WPM$63U6.PM$"
0128:trace:file:append_entry long L"WPM$CNIY.PM$" short L"" mask
L"WPM$63U6.PM$"
0128:trace:file:init_cached_dir_data mask L"WPM$63U6.PM$" found 0 files

Shows found 0 files, but the file would exist, but in linux file would show
with a $ instead of just $.

Log file has a total of 44620 lines.

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--- Comment #9 from Louis Lenders  ---
(In reply to Michael Setzer II from comment #8)
> Looking at logfile.log
> line 42180 find this?
>
> 0128:trace:file:append_entry long L"." short L"" mask L"WPM$63U6.PM$"
> 0128:trace:file:append_entry long L".." short L"" mask L"WPM$63U6.PM$"

Hi, AFAICT one can just create a filename with a '$' somewhere in the name in
Linux. Like touch 'DD$DD.TM$' happily creates it, and wine also lists it when I
do 'cmd /c dir'. How can you be sure that that's the cause of the crash?

It might be more useful to run with WINEDEBUG=+relay,+seh wine program.exe >
logfile.log and attach the logfile here (bzip2 it to make it smaller)

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--- Comment #10 from Michael Setzer II  ---
Created attachment 78674
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=78674
logfile created with bz2 using +sed since +relay got 6G file before killing

Created file, but with the +relay option it created file to 6G and was just
going. With +sed it runs in same amount of time and has same crash.

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--- Comment #11 from Michael Setzer II  ---
Ran it with +relay,+sed but it just sat there and created a 6G log file.
Tried it with +relay only and did the same thing. Got to 4G before cancel.
Then ran it with +sed

Original logfile with 6M and with +sed is like 12M

242K Jun  3 10:51 logfile3.log.bz2
6.0M Jun  1 23:58 logfile.log
 12M Jun  3 10:50 logfile3.log

Don't know that $ is the issue might be something else.

Saw no lines with error or critical in original log file.

When thru original log file scanning for IERenderer and nothing stood out as an
error. Lots of file nof found or no file messages.

Also loooked at first one with winedb, but didn't see anything obvious before
or write after that.

[Bug 58304] Question on programs that use files with $ in file names?

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--- Comment #12 from Louis Lenders  ---
Hi, looking at the fixme's just before the crash in the logfile I would first
try to see if you could get around the crash using winetricks. That could give
you a pointer in which direction to search.

Could you try 'winetricks ie8' and see if that changes anything?

[Bug 58304] Question on programs that use files with $ in file names?

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--- Comment #13 from Michael Setzer II  ---
Took a lot to try the winetricks ie8.

winetricks would not install with winehq either 10.9 or 10.8 and with neither
winehq-stable

So had to take it to regular wine from Fedora to install winetricks.

Installed the ie8, and the process came up with no crash, but the panel that
should display the message results in a completely blank panel??

So, ended up reverting back to winehq-devel and uninstalling the IERenderer
extension.

Can then use the option to open message in web browser (firefox) and it
displays the information.

Thanks for the info, was interesting.
Had to manuall remove all the ie8 files and directories that the winetricks had
created.