On Nov 3 21:55, Max Bowsher wrote: > When printing out a a REG_MULTI_SZ, regtool stops printing at the first > \0\0 sequence encountered. However, if the multi-string contains a > zero-length element, a \0\0 sequence will be encountered before the end of > the data. > > regtool should use the length value returned from the registry query call > to know when it has printed all data, not the presence of a \0\0 sequence.
I was going to point you to the drill, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC, but I read the description of REG_MULTI_SZ keys again. It's definitely defined as a list of null-terminated strings, with an empty string (aka, one single \0) terminating the list. Applications requesting a REG_MULTI_SZ value will not expect an empty string in the middle since that's against the definition. If you try to add such a REG_MULTI_SZ value using RedEdit, you'll get an error message "Data of type REG_MULTI_SZ cannot contain empty strings. Registry Editor will remove the empty string found." What's the deal to change regtool to support that? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
