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From: | Jason Rumney |
Subject: | bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables |
Date: | Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:24:07 +0800 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) |
Juanma Barranquero wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:56, Jason Rumney <jasonr@f2s.com> wrote:The right place to do this expansion is where the variable is read from the registry, and only when the type is REG_EXPAND_SZ.The problem is, we don't read "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\emacs.exe\Path", we find the PATH made for us and it contains unexpanded variables.
If the system does not handle REG_EXPAND_SZ in the App Paths registry values, then the bug is with whatever incorrectly used that type when setting the registry value.
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