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

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:13:37AM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> There aer some Konica Minolta printer drivers that
> create value names such as "__key\data" so a '\' is not
> a good delimter.

If it's a value name then this is no problem, in the current
implementation value names do not show up as tdb keys. They
are just in the SAMBA_REGVAL/<keyname> tdb entry.

> Plus, it's easier to write paths as static
> strings like "HKLM/system" than "hklm\\system".

Okay, that's a point. But a minor one I think :-)

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

If you create "hklm\\software\\samba/foo", then
"hklm\\software" ends up with a subkey of "samba/foo" that
translates into "hklm/software/samba/foo". Now if someone
wanted to create "hklm\\software\\samba" then we're screwed.

Volker
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