How to determine if file is within the prefix/bottle or not?

[wolbrink]

I'd like to put a warning into my application that warns the user if they try to store their document inside the prefix/bottle. (In other words I want to help the user avoid putting user data under the "drive_c" folder.)

I know that some folders are redirects, such as C:\Users\{user}\Desktop refers to the Desktop folder in the user's real profile, so this is safe, as well as many other special locations.

Is there a command-line tool my app can call (running within Wine) that will convert any given path to the native path outside of Wine?

[jorl17]

I'd like to put a warning into my application that warns the user if they try to store their document inside the prefix/bottle. (In other words I want to help the user avoid putting user data under the "drive_c" folder.)

I know that some folders are redirects, such as C:\Users\{user}\Desktop refers to the Desktop folder in the user's real profile, so this is safe, as well as many other special locations.

Is there a command-line tool my app can call (running within Wine) that will convert any given path to the native path outside of Wine?

Well, there's winepath (http://wiki.winehq.org/winepath ; don't forget that readlink is always there too).

Additionally, there *is* an internal wine function named http://wiki.winehq.org/winepath as you can see, it lies in kernel32, so it should be adressable...
(http://source.winehq.org/WineAPI/kernel32.html)

Cheers,

Jorl17

[jorl17]

I was obviously talking about wine_get_unix_file_name(), but my stupidity ruled over my ability to hit CTRL+C...

Cheers,

Jorl17

[wolbrink]

I was obviously talking about wine_get_unix_file_name()

Thanks for clarifying! I'll check into that. It sounds right! It'll be interesting to read the source code for that function, too.

--Troy