Does the "dosdevices" folder always exist?

[madoar]

In the following lines of the sandbox script we remove two subfolders of the dosdevices folder:

scripts/Engines/Wine/Verbs/sandbox/script.js

Lines 13 to 14 in 773a6dd

	remove(this.prefixDirectory() + "/dosdevices/z:");
	remove(this.prefixDirectory() + "/dosdevices/y:");

After executing the sandbox verb modified in #1112, I received an error because these folders don't exist.

[plata]

I don't know. @qparis or maybe also @Gcenx?

[Gcenx]

Those symlinks usually exist, however were are you getting the error from?

If it’s wine that one thing if it’s coming from PhoenicisOrg that’s another matter, if it’s PhoenicisOrg it shouldn’t be giving an error of the symlinks are missing

If it’s wine then a registry setting is missing so it doesn’t keep remaking those symlinks on launch.

[madoar]

I get this error in Phoenicis when trying to delete the folders during the setup of a sandbox.
The sandbox setup the dosdevices/z: and dosdevices/y: are first deleted and then replaced by a symbolic link. The error occurs during the removal of the initial dosdevices/z: and dosdevices/y: folders.

[madoar]

See also:

scripts/Engines/Wine/Verbs/sandbox/script.js

Lines 10 to 17 in 773a6dd

	var tmp = Bean("propertyReader").getProperty("application.user.tmp");
	var resources = Bean("propertyReader").getProperty("application.user.resources");
	remove(this.prefixDirectory() + "/dosdevices/z:");
	remove(this.prefixDirectory() + "/dosdevices/y:");
	lns(tmp, this.prefixDirectory() + "/dosdevices/z:");
	lns(resources, this.prefixDirectory() + "/dosdevices/y:");

[Gcenx]

Originally ‘z’ is a symlinks to ‘/‘ and ‘y:’ would be a symlinks to possibly a disk drive or some other mounted drive.

I’m not sure why symlinks are created as when you remove these from within winecfg they don’t get replaced with folders, they just no longer exist until configured within winecfg again.
If this is all being configured from within Phoenicis then it should remove the symlink when disabled and make it again when disabled

[madoar]

@Gcenx do we run into any problems if we manually create the symlink outside wine?

[Gcenx]

@madoar I don’t remember any issue when doing anything outside of wine as long as any needed registry entry’s were added/edited/generated correctly it’s always been fine.