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Re: cygwin_internal (CW_SET_cygwin_REGISTRY_NAME)


On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:17:54AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>I have just noticed that the registry location of the mounts 
>can be modified by cygwin_internal (CW_SET_CYGWIN_REGISTRY_NAME)
>
>In path.cc one finds
>#define CYGWIN_REGNAME (cygheap->cygwin_regname ?: CYGWIN_INFO_CYGWIN_REGISTRY_NAME)
>
>This applies only to locations under HKLM, not HKCU, except in the
>case of writing and deleting (but not reading) the cygdrive, where
>it applies to both HKLM and HKCU.
>
>Given that the current implementation is broken and that the feature
>is undocumented, do we want to keep it? If we keep it, how should it
>work (only HKLM or both HKLM and HKCU)?

I probably put that there six years ago or so but I don't remember
why I thought it would be useful.

Please nuke it.

cgf


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