From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps@hotmail.com>
To: g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: /dev/registry
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 19:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F119CHnbNWIWGjBM6VN000137e9@hotmail.com> (raw)
> >
> >
> > How about adding a /dev/registry fhandler to Cygwin? Registry keys would
>be
> > directories and values in the registry files. I'm willing to try coding
>this
> > if people think it's a good idea. It allows shell scripts to easily
>access
> > registry keys as well as programs.
> >
>
>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.
>
umm /dev/registry I am assuming you would think would act like a file? -
people were suggesing /proc/registry - and as far as I could tell it would
act like a directory - so your 'cat junk' would just fail with invalid
target...
maybe you meant cat hundredsofmbofjunk >
/proc/registry/HKLM/User/Software/Windows/Current/blah/ding/shiznat.sz
?
which i dont see you manageing no matter how hard you try ...
Gareth
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next reply other threads:[~2002-02-05 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-04 19:57 Gareth Pearce [this message]
2002-02-06 3:23 ` /dev/registry Barubary
2002-02-06 3:47 ` /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry) Chris January
2002-02-06 4:24 ` Ralf Habacker
2002-02-06 16:54 ` Chris January
2002-02-07 1:57 ` Pavel Tsekov
2002-02-06 16:51 ` Warren Young
2002-02-06 8:56 ` /dev/registry Randall R Schulz
2002-02-08 23:42 ` /dev/registry Robert Collins
2002-02-09 10:43 ` /dev/registry Christopher Faylor
2002-02-09 13:17 ` /dev/registry Robert Collins
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-03 12:07 /dev/registry Chris January
2002-02-03 10:49 ` /dev/registry Gerald Villemure
2002-02-03 11:02 ` /dev/registry Daniel Adams
2002-02-03 11:14 ` /dev/registry Charles Wilson
2002-02-03 12:00 ` /dev/registry Christopher Faylor
2002-02-03 12:07 ` /dev/registry roland
2002-02-03 23:15 ` /dev/registry Gerald Villemure
2002-02-04 0:36 ` /dev/registry Corinna Vinschen
2002-02-04 14:43 ` /dev/registry Greg Mosier
2002-02-04 14:53 ` /dev/registry Michael A Chase
2002-02-05 5:28 ` /dev/registry Lapo Luchini
2002-02-05 9:28 ` /dev/registry Christopher Faylor
2002-02-05 13:46 ` /dev/registry Ralf Habacker
2002-02-05 14:03 ` /dev/registry Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-02-05 14:07 ` /dev/registry Michael A Chase
2002-02-03 12:07 ` /dev/registry Jon Foster
2002-02-03 12:07 ` /dev/registry Michael F. March
2002-02-03 12:07 ` /dev/registry Lapo Luchini
2002-02-04 18:50 ` /dev/registry Gary R. Van Sickle
2002-02-10 0:18 ` /dev/registry Robert Collins
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