NAME

RegOpenKeyExA  (ADVAPI32.@)

SYNOPSIS

 LSTATUS RegOpenKeyExA
 (
  HKEY   hkey,
  LPCSTR name,
  DWORD  options,
  REGSAM access,
  PHKEY  retkey
 )

DESCRIPTION

Open a registry key.

PARAMS

hkey [In] Handle of open key.
name [In] Name of subkey to open.
options [In] Open options (can be set to REG_OPTION_OPEN_LINK).
access [In] Security access mask.
retkey [Out] Handle to open key.

RETURNS

Success: ERROR_SUCCESS

Failure: A standard Win32 error code. retkey is set to 0.

NOTES

Unlike RegCreateKeyExA, this function will not create the key if it does not exist.

IMPLEMENTATION

Defined in "winreg.h".

Implemented in "dlls/advapi32/registry.c". source.winehq.org/source/dlls/advapi32/registry.c

Debug channel "reg".

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