Thursday, June 29, 2006, 12:02:38 PM, William Knop wrote: > On 6/29/06, Vincent Povirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 6/29/06, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > One could argue Windows itself is a mis-feature. :P Isn't the point of >> > Wine to >> > duplicate Windows, feature-for-feature and bug-for-bug? IMO, autorun >> > capabilities should be included, though I personally don't care if it's on >> > or >> > off by default, as long as there's an option in winecfg. I'll just turn it >> > off myself. Or perhaps even a popup notification upon the first detected >> > autorun-capable disc, asking if you want to turn autorun on or off. >> > autorun.inf needs to be parsed anyway, since it can set an icon for the >> > drive. >> No, I think the point of Wine is to run Windows programs on top of >> Unix. We don't need autorun to run Windows programs at all. Wine often >> leaves out features that are in Windows because they aren't needed to >> get Windows programs to run. >> >> Running whatever code happens to be on a cd without asking the user is >> a very bad idea. I don't want to see it happen, and I think most real >> Wine devs probably feel the same way. >> >> Gnome already has a feature that can ask the user what to do when a cd >> is inserted. KDE probably has a similar feature. I think they'd be the >> people to ask if you want something like Windows' autorun.
> Having the ability to autorun cds is most definitely not a misfeature. Of course it's not. It's the perfect means of distributing trojans, backdoors, rootkits and other very useful software an every CD, including DVDs and music CDs. Vitaliy.
