On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:24, Jeff Smith wrote:
After further consideration, I have come to believe that we might as well have the root mapping. Enough people seem to want it that, as Dimi say, we need to deal with the possibility anyway. BTW, Todd, I hope when I posted the URL to the article puoti had mentioned, that you did not think the opinions expressed in that article were by any means my own. Perhaps I should have made a disclaimer. :-/
As for using it in the wine config tool, I thought it was going to be a winelib app, as opposed to pure win32. With a winelib app, wouldn't you be able to read the file in with *nix calls? I haven't written any winelib apps myself, so maybe I'll shut up now about that.
My understanding is rather weak here, as well. I've been using a call to fopen("/etc/fstab",...) and it works fine. However, I'm unsure as to why this works: is it because winecfg is a winelib app so fopen is actually coming out of the normal glibc? or does wine pass the name through to the unix filesystem? I currently have a drive mapped to "/", will this continue to work if that is not the case? To summarize the issue: if I call fopen() from winecfg, am I getting the normal GNU/Linux function or some Wine wrapper to it?
[F]ighting [U]ncertainy [D]aily- Patrick
Finally, on the security (non) issue, a virus designed with wine in mind (that phrase is fun to say) could get privileges to / if ${HOME} is already mapped. Try this: 'notepad "F:.wine\config"', where F is what ${HOME} is mapped to, and then use your imagination.
-- Jeff Smith
--- "Dimitrie O. Paun" dimi@intelliware.ca wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
But if the user had a correct Wine configuration, he would not have had the problem that made Mike add '/' as a drive path... And all this discussion would not have been started at all :-)
Not quite. I, for one, (and I think I'm not in a minority) would like to have such a Z: drive in normal/correct/proper configuration. In which case we have to deal with it being there anyway. And once we do, we might as well have it present by default :)
-- Dimi.
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