Windows, GNUPGHOME, registry

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Fri Aug 24 11:58:01 2001


On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:29:52 +0200, disastry  said:


> (besides... env vars are keept in registry too)
Huh? Under the PID somewhere or what, the environment is a data block passed from one process to another when doing a CreateProcess. Any process can modify it as it likes.
> but it costs you nothing, and will not destroy
> current functionality (it will still read homedir from registry),
The problem is the support. Especially under Windows you have huge problems to figure out what happens and introducing just another parameter makes it more worse. -- Werner Koch Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur g10 Code GmbH et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Privacy Solutions -- Augustinus