On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> when root saves the registry:
> Why do the symlinks get replaced ?
> I assume that is happening because it's the temp file mechanism in the
> registry code that is responsible for saving the registry, no ?
> And as we don't append to a reg file, but create a *new* temp file and
> rename it (AFAIK, I didn't look at the code), symlinks are treated in a
> really bad way, i.e. they are thrown away :)
That's right.
> Maybe we really might want to use your proposed "symlink from $sysconfdir
> to ~root/.wine" approach, so maybe we might want to fix that temp file
> "problem" somehow.
OK... I managed after a while to patch the registry saver to use
realpath() to follow symlinks... but I can't seem to do a cvs diff since
the server is down again... and I don't know whether we should check for
realpath() in configure?
