Robert Lunnon bobl@optushome.com.au writes:
All, I am having some considerable problems dealing with a simple issue. In .wine/dosdevices, devices are listed followed by a colon like in dos. This makes perfect sense except that the colon is often used in UNIX to separate elements of a path description and has special meaning tto some programs. Under solaris this causes problems with the runtime loader which can't dlopen a filename containing a colon, and seems to be problematic for stat as well.
What is wrong with listing them without the colon so we don't risk these OS incompatibilities or perhaps adapt the code to accept the links with or without an appended colon.
It could be changed, but there are some serious backwards compatibility issues. I think wrapping dlopen would be a lot easier, especially since we already have a wrapper for it.