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Re: User registry hive
- To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Subject: Re: User registry hive
- From: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:15:45 -0400
- CC: cygdev <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corporation
- References: <394CF57C.78C2BA83@vinschen.de>
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).
> That slows down things a bit when changing the user context but
> that doesn't happen that often.
I am willing to accept the slow down.
> 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.
Thanks,
Jason
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