[Patch] Loading the registry hive on Win9x

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Nov 16 02:58:00 GMT 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:21:36PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>This patch is the first of two to also load the registry hive on
>Win9x during seteuid, and to apply the method recommended in
>MS KB 199190 to avoid using HKCU.
> 
>This will yield the correct user mounts under ssh, telnet, etc...
>
>Using the new method cygheap_user::get_windows_id() also streamlines
>some aspects of Cygwin, e.g. in shared.cc below and more tomorrow.

Ok.  Please check in.

Thanks.

cgf



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