Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
>> But you previously stated that this code was ignoring the registry
>> values. So doesn't "system defaults" boil down to whatever Windows'
>> wired-in defaults are?
> The order is Windows wired-in-defaults -> registry values -> what app chooses.
> And yes, we *are* ignoring whatever the user has put in the registry,
How does that statement square with your follow-on example?
> Assume the user had reconfigured his default in the registry to 1 hour.
> If the user makes no config change at all, that means it will run with
> 1 hour for idle and 1 second for interval.
> If we now set tcp_interval to 10 seconds (to change the default), we
> will now also change his idle value back to the system default, so he
> will get 2 hours for idle and 10 seconds for interval. Thus, we are
> ignoring the changes he made globally on his system.
With the code as you have it, yes, but if we do it as I'm suggesting,
that doesn't happen --- the effective value of the other parameter
doesn't change.
regards, tom lane
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