[quake3] fs_homepath write protected, Windows 2000

Henry Garcia defsyn at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 21:17:26 EDT 2007


On 10/10/07, Tony J. White <tjw at webteam.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 06:35:08PM -0400, Henry Garcia wrote:
> >      The difference here is not the path, but the binary used
> apperantly.
> >
> >      I can reproduce the problem using ioquake3.x86.exe instead of
> >      ioq3ded.x86.exe.  I tried building ioquake3.x86.exe without the
> >      -mwindows flag, but it has no effect.  This has to do with
> >      SDL's main(), but I'm not sure what the proper fix is.
> >
> >    All I know is that works in Linux, why won't it work in Windows? :)


Sounds like some progress. This bug also has other results.

For instance, if you do the following:
  ioquake3.x86.exe +set fs_homepath "c:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\"

the program goes ahead and creates a directory called c:\Program, if
c:\Program does not exist.

So, apparently, there's no code to exit out of the routine preventing the
creation of an unasked for directory. It appeas the bug is discovered or
reported in the console after the directory has been created.
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