From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12382 invoked by alias); 3 May 2002 00:12:04 -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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12374 invoked from network); 3 May 2002 00:12:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cmailg4.svr.pol.co.uk) (195.92.195.174) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 May 2002 00:12:03 -0000 Received: from modem-1647.chimpanzee.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.118.111] helo=avacado.atomice.net) by cmailg4.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 173Qg6-00031O-00 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 03 May 2002 01:12:02 +0100 Received: from advent02 [127.0.0.1] (chris@atomice.net); Fri, 3 May 2002 01:14:53 +0100 X-WM-Posted-At: avacado.atomice.net; Fri, 3 May 02 01:14:53 +0100 Message-ID: <00ea01c1f237$8c421a70$0100a8c0@advent02> From: "Chris January" To: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020502163048.026f8bb0@pop3.cris.com> Subject: Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 17:12:00 -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-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00131.txt.bz2 > Chris & Chris, > > Cool! > > Is the registry as reflected in /proc/registry writable? I'm torn between writing "no", and "no, not yet". The problem with this is that it is inevitable that at some point or other someone will post to the cygwin mailing list complaining they typed rm -rf /proc/registry/* and now their system is hosed and it's all Red Hat's fault... Certainly there would have to be some kind of 'safety' mechanism, whereby by default /proc/registry was read-only, but somehow it could be made writable, perhaps by writing '1' to /proc/registry/.writable or something. Regards Chris -- 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/