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Re: User registry hive
- To: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Subject: Re: User registry hive
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:19:04 +0200
- CC: cygdev <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <394CF57C.78C2BA83@vinschen.de> <394FA6C1.5C2F01E6@dothill.com>
- Reply-To: cygdev <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Jason Tishler wrote:
>
> Corinna,
>
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I have just for fun implemented to load the users registry hive
> > in spawn_guts in case of CreateProcessAsUser. It works fine.
> >
> > Are we interested in doing that?
>
> I am certainly interested in the above -- it would be real nice to
> get the same environment regardless of how one accesses their machine
> (ie, console or telnet).
It's already in the cvs repository and will be in the
tomorrows developer snapshot, at least.
> > Still unresolved is the problem if somebody tries to change
> > something in the own hive, say mount points. Because there's
> > currently no mechanism to save the hive back again, it's new
> > content is discarded on reboot.
>
> If you can't find a solution to the above, then I'm willing to live
> with this limitation too.
I would be glad if somebody could push me in the right
direction...
Corinna