From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25346 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2002 08:18:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25220 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2002 08:18:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO itdomain003.itdomain.net.au) (203.63.157.208) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2002 08:18:17 -0000 Received: from lifelesswks ([144.137.122.216]) by itdomain003.itdomain.net.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.3779); Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:18:14 +1100 Message-ID: <00d801c1b20b$8fc74470$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" , References: Subject: Re: /dev/registry Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 00:18:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Feb 2002 08:18:14.0996 (UTC) FILETIME=[7CB8E140:01C1B20B] X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00497.txt.bz2 === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" > Well, it looks like I'll be the only one, but this sounds to me like an insanely > *BAD* idea. It seems to me to be hard enough to keep the Windows registry in > one piece even if you don't dink with it; I shudder to think what horrors await > sombody with fat fingers and an itchy TAB finger (i.e. me): > > cat HundredsOfMBsOfCrap > /dev/r[TAB-oops-I-meant...well-something-else-anyway] > > I'm trying to think where this would actually be useful, but I'm drawing a > blank. It seems to me that the registry should have at least a slightly higher > barrier to entry than the command line. cat HundredsOfMbsOfCrap > /vmlinuz. cat HundredsOfMbsOfCrap > /etc/rc0.d/... Hmm, doesn't seem much different. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/