Ticket #446 (closed defect: worksforme)
DirWatch doesn't like Windows symbolic links
| Reported by: | Philip | Owned by: | wacko |
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| Priority: | Nice to Have | Milestone: | Alpha 2 |
| Component: | Core engine | Keywords: | |
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Description
If I create a symbolic directory link (via mklink /d on Vista) for e.g. the mods/public/art directory (so I can share it with another installation of the game), then DirWatchManager::Add constructs a PDirWatchRequest which has m_dirHandle.m_hDir = 0xffffffff and then it raises an error in CompletionPort::Attach. Other things fail later on.
It'd be nicer if worked. (But it already works fine with junctions (mklink /j) instead of symlinks, so it's not a serious lack of functionality.)
Change History
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by wacko
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to worksforme
I tested this both with the game and with a test application on both win7 and vista 32 and 64bit and had no issues. I also tested it on 3 different machines outside my own with no issues. I am going to close this ticket unless someone runs into the issues again.
Milestone Unclassified deleted