Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: dcache problems with vfat | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:05:03 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <19990110004934.K4716@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>, Jamie Lokier writes : +----- | > BTW, these short names are really common. (vfat, ntfs, smbfs, iso9660) | > Perhaps they ought to be in struct stat. **duck** Well? | | IMO, it is extremely desirable that Wine should *not* depend on the | underlying filesystem. Therefore, if Wine really depends on this | behaviour, it would be desirable to fix Wine. (I'm not sure that Wine | really requires this). +--->8
Sigh. What's really desirable is to fix VFAT, but that's out of the question. :-( Failing that, using Wine to manipulate files on a mounted VFAT partition that is also used by WinXX (via multiple boot) means seeing and dealing with shortnames in a WinXX-compatible fashion --- Wine has little choice, other than declaring that it can't be used to access a real WinXX partition, but to grot around getting (and creating) shortnames.
Yes, it sucks. So does VFAT. (I wouldn't mind Microsoft quite so much if they had a clue.)
| AFAIK, the only other program which uses access to the short names is | Samba. (a) Why? (b) Is there some other approach which Samba can use? +--->8
Same reason. I suspect both the Samba and the Wine developers would be very happy if someone replaced VFAT with something sensible overnight on all systems using VFAT... but it won't happen.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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