From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26095 invoked by alias); 3 Feb 2002 19:14:42 -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 26007 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2002 19:14:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jxmls02.se.mediaone.net) (24.129.0.110) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Feb 2002 19:14:35 -0000 Received: from ece.gatech.edu (att-98-128-23.atl.mediaone.net [24.98.128.23]) by jxmls02.se.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g13JIn103673; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 14:18:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C5D8C66.1050003@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 11:14:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Adams CC: Cygwin Subject: Re: /dev/registry References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00098.txt.bz2 Daniel Adams wrote: > /proc/registry/* > > is a GREAT idea! Okay folks, enough with the "me toos". Suffice it to say that everybody thinks this is a wonderful idea. Not surprisingly, the suggestion of a /dev/registry or /proc/registry HAS been made before. And everybody thought it was a great idea then, too. There's only one problem: back then, after the initial round of self-congratulation and "great idea -- me too-ism" -- nobody did the work. I suspect the same thing will be true this time, as well. Somebody please astonish me and provide the code. --Chuck (*) P.S. "back then" somebody mentioned a few problems with file-system access to registry entries: how do you deal with the various types -- DWORD, BINARY, STRING, (and the other types that AREN'T accessible via regedit...) Just something to keep in mind, if somebody actually tries to write some code for this... -- 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/