Re: registry TODO

2005-03-23 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Hi, On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 03:43:40PM -0800, Steven Edwards wrote about 'Re: registry TODO': > --- Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How is ReactOS's current (future) system? > I think ReactOS's registry is binary compatible with NT4.

Re: registry TODO

2005-03-22 Thread Steven Edwards
Hi, --- Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How is ReactOS's current (future) system? I think ReactOS's registry is binary compatible with NT4. It and the windows 2000 format was documented/reversed for samba and the linux ntchpwd bootdisk projects. If I remeber right Eirc Kohl offered to

Re: registry TODO

2005-03-22 Thread Filip Navara
Boaz Harrosh wrote: Thomas Weidenmueller wrote: How is ReactOS's current (future) system? See above I was Just asking what ReactOS is doing, not that they need change. ReactOS is different in this respect, I agree. Is ReactOS's format the same as Windows. or do you have your own Binary format? We

Re: registry TODO

2005-03-22 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Is ReactOS's format the same as Windows. or do you have your own Binary The answer to "is the reactos registry format the same as windows" depends on which version of windows you are comparing it to. Windows 95/98/ME used system.dat and user.dat to store the registry. NT kernels (NT4, 2000, XP et

Re: registry TODO

2005-03-22 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, James Hawkins wrote: [...] What needs to be done concerning this TODO? Looking through Bugzilla I found bug #422: "Currently Wine loads the complete registry into memory at startup. This is relatively ok when the registry is small such as in fake_windows configurations, but wh

Re: registry TODO

2005-03-22 Thread Boaz Harrosh
James Hawkins wrote: Nobody's working on it, so it won't be supported until someone cares enough to do it. I encouraged a few people to start working on it but nobody did, so taking out the existing support is a way to provide more encouragement. If that's not enough then the feature simply won't b

registry TODO

2005-03-21 Thread James Hawkins
Alexandre, Recently you removed the loading of the Windows registry on startup and stated that > Nobody's working on it, so it won't be supported until someone cares > enough to do it. I encouraged a few people to start working on it but > nobody did, so taking out the existing support is a way t