On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >The only mechanism I can think of that is adversely affected by this >convention is /proc/registry, because of its attempt to map the >registry onto a filesystem. Because the registry doesn't have the same >set of invalid characters in names as the underlying filesystem, this >mapping sometimes fails, as in the case of mounts values. It might be >possible to change the /proc/registry implementation to translate "/"s >in key and value names to valid character combinations (e.g., URL >encoding). PTC.
I've toyed with the idea of making /proc/registry a managed mount but since managed mounts don't allow '/' in a filename either, that would require some additional work on the managed stuff. cgf -- 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/