On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:38:11 +1000 Robert Lunnon bobl@optushome.com.au wrote:
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.
Comments anyone ?
I want to add that gdb under Darwin can't find such files under some conditions (thinking that : is a path separator).
-- Ph.