On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 14:55, Juan Lang juan.lang@gmail.com wrote:
Did you read the second paragraph of my original email? I'm not working around a bug in Wine, unless it's a bug that a user can map "/" to "C:" and call it a "fixed disk".
Yes, I read it. And scanning "/" shouldn't be a problem, unless you've also mapped network drives there. That seems to be the root of the problem.
Yes, that's the root of the problem. I can't prevent the end-user from mounting network drives -- in fact, in the expected installation environment, the average user will have several very large network drives mounted.
Under Windows, installation takes about five minutes, and the full-disk search provides a nicer user experience if they're upgrading from an ancient copy of the software. Under Wine, I need to either skip the full-disk search, or warn the user that it may take several hours.