From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:24:07 +0800 Message-ID: <497ED2B7.2080509@f2s.com> References: <497E69EB.70609@f2s.com> Reply-To: Jason Rumney , 2062@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233049425 6318 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2009 09:43:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:43:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 2062@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 10:44:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LRkV8-0006XT-2t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:44:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRkTq-000375-At for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:43:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRkTm-000369-17 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRkTk-00034X-Gm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:43:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52303 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRkTk-00034P-CA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:43:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:53188) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRkTj-0000VI-V7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:43:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0R9hTKo025725; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:43:29 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n0R9U26O022140; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:30:02 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Jason Rumney Original-Sender: Jason Rumney Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs , owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 2062 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs,w32 X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 2062-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B2062.123304828720884 (code B ref 2062); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2062) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 27 Jan 2009 09:24:47 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. 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([118.101.26.137]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm3149124yxt.11.2009.01.27.01.24.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:24:40 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:43:33 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:24604 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:56, Jason Rumney 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.