On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 06:44:12PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 06:58:31AM +0200, Jukka Heinonen wrote:
> > Fallout II requires that a certain file is located
> > on a CDROM drive. For some reason it checks this using
> > SetFileAttributes, which is supposed to fail on readonly
> > drives. This used to work until the following patch broke
> > this behaviour (message continues after the patch):
> >
> > Index: file.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /home/wine/wine/win32/file.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.26
> > retrieving revision 1.27
> > diff -u -r1.26 -r1.27
> > --- file.c 2001/05/14 20:09:39 1.26
> > +++ file.c 2001/05/18 23:18:25 1.27
> > @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
> > {
> > FILE_SetDosError();
> > MESSAGE("Wine ERROR: Couldn't set file attributes for existing file
>\"%s\". Check permissions or set VFAT \"quiet\" flag !\n", full_name.long_name);
> > - return FALSE;
> > + return TRUE;
> > }
> > return TRUE;
> > }
> >
> > The above patch obviously breaks Windows compatibility (and likely has a
> > bug related to FILE_SetDosError). I would like to suggest that this patch
> > is either removed or replaced with a patch that includes a C comment that
> > properly documents reasons for this deliberate incompatibility and that
> > either only affects non-CDROM drives or drives configured using
> > some magic flag in Wine configuration file.
> NO !! :-)
>
> Note that read-only handling in general is *very* problematic.
> (and Marcus *did* have a reason for changing it the other way around,
> I suppose !)
> There is the issue of read-only *drives* vs. read-only *files*, too !
>
> Wine should make sure that it returns proper values in all cases.
>
> Simply reverting the patch done by Marcus does no good at all.
> Either invest enough time to fully understand read-only
> file/directory/device behaviour (and possibly fix Wine to handle everything
> 150% correctly :) or forget it, I'd say.
The problem is more that file attribute settings just doesnt work that well
on VFAT.
So you basically break some more installers.
I don't remember what installer it was however. :(
Ciao, Marcus
