> You don't want to depend on the symlinks, things should work without
> requiring the user to create any symlink.
> It should depend on what
> actual devices are present on the machine,
So, directly stat /dev/ttyS*, then check dosdevices for anything overriding
these?
> > The code in oldconfig.c is called by process.c/__wine_kernel_init(), on
> > server startup.
> > The entries are volatile, and are dynamically created if you count scanning
> wineprefix/dosdevices/
> > and doing a stat() on anything named com[1-9] it finds there every time
> > wine starts up
> > Dear winehackers,
> > I sent this patch to wine-patches, with a few iterations of editing,
> > and wondered if I could have some feedback on it, before I just resend
> > it.
> I don't think hardcoding this(as this patch seems to do afaics, I barely
> know the code) is the right approach here. I
Dear winehackers,
I sent this patch to wine-patches, with a few iterations of editing, and
wondered if I could have
some feedback on it, before I just resend it.
Andydiff --git a/dlls/kernel32/oldconfig.c b/dlls/kernel32/oldconfig.c
index 20b6eaa..bb238fb 100644
--- a/dlls/kernel32/oldconfig.c
+
> > Follows example of create_scsi_entries() in oldconfig.c
> > Addresses bug 11811 among others.
> > docs at
> > http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/misc-things-to-configure only
> > mention
> > lowercase names in dosdevices.
> > Hopefully I'm not too far down the s**t list; only my 2n
Resending this as it didn't make the list (shef.ac.uk != sheffield.ac.uk) sorry
Austin
> > Follows example of create_scsi_entries() in oldconfig.c
> > Addresses bug 11811 among others.
> > docs at
> > http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/misc-things-to-configure only
> > mention
> > lo
