Hello, I got asked if I could get a discussion started for the attached patch and bug #38235 [1].
This bug is about Blindwrite 7 not showing any usable source DVD drive.
It seems Blindwrite relies on the values stored in HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices to enumerate drives.
Wine currently stores in e.g. "\DosDevices\D:" the linux mount point of the drive as ansi string.
A native Windows XP stores there (as wide string): ??\IDE#CdRomVBOX_CD-ROM_____________________________1.0_____#42562d3231303037333036372020202020202020#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
This patch stores now as content just the device (also as wide string): \.\d:
This is sufficient to make Blindwrite 7 happy.
- Is there currently any use of the stored linux mount point anywhere?
- Is there a test needed and where should that be placed as mountmgr.sys has currently no tests subdirectory?
- Is there a reason known why this short device name should not be used in this situation?
Kind regards, Bernhard
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Bernhard Übelacker