On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:43:15PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >=== >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>The suggestion about ioctl() begs the question of where to get the file >>descriptor to which to apply the ioctl() call, and does not open the >>registry to scripting languages that have no direct access to the >>Cygwin or Windows APIs. It does not really simplify the task of adding >>the ability to Cygwin, but obscures the basic access behind the obscure >>and overloaded catch-all interface that is ioctl(). It is true that >>this would make inadvertent registry corruption less likely, but it >>only by virtue of making so much less accessible. > >Yah. I've been quite on this one. I'd like to point out that Cygwin >has had a patch for /dev/registry some time ago.
I just did a search and I can't see any formal submittal of a patch. Was this your patch? I seem to find some reference to this in a "work in progress" version of your UMSDOS stuff. cgf -- 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/