On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 19:18 +0100, Molle Bestefich wrote:
Uhm. Explain to me how the above ratifies _not_ converting the Unix-style path to a Windows-style path before handing it to the app? We ARE trying to emulate Windows, are we not?
Cut the sarcasm please, there's no need for that here. I've been involved with Wine for several years now and am quite aware of the goals.
Imagine the case of an app which changes to its program directory and then does CreateProcess(..., "foo.exe", ...) and "foo.exe" assumes argv[0] will not be absolute. This sort of thing happens.
Blindly changing argv[0] to always be of one form could break as much as it fixes. In Wine, you *never* make such assumptions, instead you do what Lionel said he wanted to do and test the actual behaviour (preferably with unit tests to go with it). Then if we determine that the problem is with apps that expect to be started by Explorer and not via the command line, we can fix it (probably by making user-invoked wine processes loop back through start.exe and changing the behaviour there, but there might be another way).
thanks -mike