On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:38:11 +1000 Robert Lunnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All, > I am having some considerable problems dealing with a simple issue. > In .wine/dosdevices, devices are listed followed by a colon like in dos. This > makes perfect sense except that the colon is often used in UNIX to separate > elements of a path description and has special meaning tto some programs. > Under solaris this causes problems with the runtime loader which can't dlopen > a filename containing a colon, and seems to be problematic for stat as well. > > What is wrong with listing them without the colon so we don't risk these OS > incompatibilities or perhaps adapt the code to accept the links with or > without an appended colon. > > > Comments anyone ? I want to add that gdb under Darwin can't find such files under some conditions (thinking that : is a path separator). -- Ph.
