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SubjectRe: dcache problems with vfat
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In message <19990110004934.K4716@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>, Jamie Lokier 
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+-----
| > 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.

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