Windows, GNUPGHOME, registry

disastry@saiknes.lv disastry@saiknes.lv
Fri Aug 24 12:30:01 2001


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> > (besides... env vars are keept in registry too)
>
> Huh? Under the PID somewhere or what,
no, not for each process.
> the environment is a data block
> passed from one process to another when doing a CreateProcess. Any
> process can modify it as it likes.
yes, exactly, but first process have to read it from somewhere. local environment for each user HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\ global environment for all users HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\
> > 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.
I don't see how one additional getenv() can make it worse.. == <EOF> == Disastry http://i.am/disastry/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Netscape PGP half-Plugin 0.14 by Disastry / PGPsdk v1.7.1 iQA/AwUBO4YP5TBaTVEuJQxkEQNQhwCgu+rGzh954JMc2P+LMeMh+oPHuywAn1ov 19H+/67r5q9mD01OWB/mGOkp =2TOb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----