Since futimes is used instead of utime the installer of word viewer 97 has had a few installation issues. For a start, when the setup looks for installed components, it goes into a non infinite loop that lasts a few minutes. This only took a few seconds previously. I don't know what is causing this slow performance. The changelog of the patch that caused this regression says "so that it can be done on the client side.", maybe doing the call on client side makes it slow because the call has to go trough wineserver? I don't know. Also the graphics aren't redrawn until the loop ends. A relay log of the loop follows. I'm not very confident that I'll be able to fix this myself, but any help/hints are welcome. Interestingly the loop doesn't occur during a call to kernel.dll.SetFileTime() that's the function modified by the patch. The patch that causes the problem is http://cvs.winehq.org/patch.py?id=11722 Subsequent patches have obviously modified the function, but this hasn't solved the problem. MAybe the subsequent patches avoid an infinite loop (I don't remember the loop finishing with wine from a few months ago).
Ivan.