Windows, GNUPGHOME, registry

[disastry at saiknes.lv]

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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..

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