Why "/" instead of "\" in registry.tdb?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Nov 28 17:13:37 GMT 2006


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Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Hi, Jerry!
> 
> Is there a particular reason why you used the / for the
> keyname separator instead of the \ in registry.tdb?
> 
> I'm asking because out of curiosity I created a key with a /
> in the name. It did work, but the data structures inside
> looked a bit funny.

There aer some Konica Minolta printer drivers that
create value names such as "__key\data" so a '\' is not
a good delimter.  Plus, it's easier to write paths as static
strings like "HKLM/system" than "hklm\\system".

Is there a particular problem with how things are right now?




jerry
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