oi,
spetreolle@yahoo.fr wrote:
You're right for benefits. But will wine have the same behavior as before ? In your example, the symlink for regsrv32 is replaced. We could have a functionnality loss : will the regsrv32 still be built-in without its symlink ?
No. It won;t be builtin. It will be a native regsrv32.exe.
It is important to note that if I have ran IE installer as root (as root owns /usr/lib/wine/regsrv32.exe.so in my system), the installation would have overwritten this file and any fake windows tree which symlinks to it (I have a few) would be using the native version instead of the builtin.
However, some applications needs to replace this files.
I noted this with the Internet Explorer Installer (5.01 sp1 and 6.0). If it cannot replace the c:\windows\system\regsrv32.exe file it will abort.
However, as the c:\windows\system\regsrv32.exe is a symlink and wine has permition to move/delete this symlink, I would link to suggest that wine first delete the symlink file when an application tries to write on it.
[]'s Raul Dias