DefineDosDevice - ??

[Martin Wilck]

This function is currently a stub - are there any major problems
supporting it, i.e. supporting dynamic creation and deletion of DOS
drives? Does Wine have a notion of Device paths that look like
"\Device\Harddisk2\Partition1" at all?

Thinking about it, does something like this make sense at all in the
Wine context?

Martin

[Uwe Bonnes]

> > > > > "Martin" == Martin Wilck  writes:

Martin> This function is currently a stub - are there any major problems
    Martin> supporting it, i.e. supporting dynamic creation and deletion of
    Martin> DOS drives? Does Wine have a notion of Device paths that look
    Martin> like "\Device\Harddisk2\Partition1" at all?

Not yet, to my understanding. It could be done by some configure option,
e.g.:
"\Device\Harddisk2\Partition1" -> /dev/hdb1
and than file operations like open, read should succeed, if you have
appropriate rights as the user running wine.

Martin> Thinking about it, does something like this make sense at all in
    Martin> the Wine context?

If your program needs raw partition access and you feel like allowing wine
to do that access, it can make sense.

Bye