On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:19:57AM +0100, William S Fulton wrote: > > > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? > > > > It is already. Try `ls -l /proc/registry' > > Neat. Is there any way to tell the type of the key's value using this > interface? For example if I wanted to modify a key's value through > "echo foo > /prog/registry/.../Key", how do I tell Cygwin that I want > the type to be REG_EXPAND_SZ, REG_DWORD, REG_MULTI_SZ, REG_SZ, etc?
You don't. /proc/registry is read-only. If you want to modify the registry, use regtool. > Conversely is there a way to determine the type when reading? It > appears that Cygwin does what you expect (e.g. returning a \0 delimited > list for REG_MULTI_SZ) but is there any way to ask it directly? Not that I know of. Look at fhandler_registry.cc for implementation details. > This is yet another really cool Cygwin feature that I had no idea about > until now... :-) > Brian It pays to read the release notes... ;-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/