Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
Is the source code for this functionality accessible for download
somewhere ?
Chris January wrote:
1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the length of
the
names -
/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/S
hell\ Extensions/Approved/\{BDEADF00-C265-11d0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F\} is a
bit
hard to type in by accident...
At the moment, I have called the default key value, (default), the same as
regedit. Does anyone have any objections to this (and if so a better
suggestion)? The brackets can't be typed into bash without being quoted;
this might become a bit of a pain.
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/proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
Why can't this /dev/registry stuff be just an ioctl()? Open the
/dev/registry node for the appropriate access, then use some ioctl()'s to
read and write it. Put the /dev/null entry points for the read and write
handlers for /dev/registry and you won't have that accidental corruption
from cat.
By the way, if you're using Cygwin, why can't you just call
RegQueryValueExW
and friends yourself? You're a Win32 process anyway, and no UNIX has such
a
thing - don't care about portability.
1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the length of the
names -
/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/S
hell\ Extensions/Approved/\{BDEADF00-C265-11d0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F\} is a bit
hard to type in by accident...
2. it makes scripting easier
3. ** adding /proc/registry means adding /proc and once a /proc virtual fs
is established, other /proc entries can be added a lot more easily
4. it gives you an alternative to regedit and friends
I almost have a read-only version of this working. I don't see why their
should be objections to this since you can't screw your registry up in any
way. I'll think
about how to add write capabilities later.
I'll probably add some entries to /proc - ones commonly found on UNIX
platforms maybe. Anyone have any favourites they wish to see?
Regards
Chris
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RE: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
Why can't this /dev/registry stuff be just an ioctl()? Open the
/dev/registry node for the appropriate access, then use some ioctl()'s to
read and write it. Put the /dev/null entry points for the read and write
handlers for /dev/registry and you won't have that accidental corruption
from cat.
By the way, if you're using Cygwin, why can't you just call
RegQueryValueExW
and friends yourself? You're a Win32 process anyway, and no UNIX has such
a
thing - don't care about portability.
1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the length of the
names -
/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/S
hell\ Extensions/Approved/\{BDEADF00-C265-11d0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F\} is a bit
hard to type in by accident...
2. it makes scripting easier
3. ** adding /proc/registry means adding /proc and once a /proc virtual fs
is established, other /proc entries can be added a lot more easily
This seems good to me :-)
4. it gives you an alternative to regedit and friends
I almost have a read-only version of this working. I don't see why their
should be objections to this since you can't screw your registry up in any
way. I'll think about how to add write capabilities later.
I'll probably add some entries to /proc - ones commonly found on UNIX
platforms maybe. Anyone have any favourites they wish to see?
Regards
Chris
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Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
Chris January wrote: I'll probably add some entries to /proc - ones commonly found on UNIX platforms maybe. Anyone have any favourites they wish to see? I don't know about favorite, but the only one that's even close to standardized across Unices is /proc/pid. And even that is nonstandard everywhere: it's a bunch of text files on Linux, and a bunch of binary files by different names under recent SysVR4. (Or SVR5, as Caldera nee SCO insists on calling it.) -- 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/
Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the length of
the
names -
/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/S
hell\ Extensions/Approved/\{BDEADF00-C265-11d0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F\} is a
bit
hard to type in by accident...
At the moment, I have called the default key value, (default), the same as
regedit. Does anyone have any objections to this (and if so a better
suggestion)? The brackets can't be typed into bash without being quoted;
this might become a bit of a pain.
Regards
Chris
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RE: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
Another suggestion (I won't presume to say better):
.reg files refer to this value as @. E.g.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes]
@=.current
stephan();
-Original Message-
From: Chris January [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the
length of
the
names -
/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersi
on/S
hell\ Extensions/Approved/\{BDEADF00-C265-11d0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F\}
is a
bit
hard to type in by accident...
At the moment, I have called the default key value, (default), the
same as regedit. Does anyone have any objections to this (and if so a
better suggestion)? The brackets can't be typed into bash without being
quoted; this might become a bit of a pain.
Regards
Chris
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Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
Just another log on the fire, the Perl registry modules use for the
(default) value.
Even so, I'd lean toward @ since it's hard to name a file .
You may need to have an ioctl() to change the key separator. '\' would
probably be ok, but difficult. The problem with '/' might make it hard to
handle the cygwin mount tables.
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From: Stephan Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chris January [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 17:00
Subject: RE: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
Another suggestion (I won't presume to say better):
.reg files refer to this value as @. E.g.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes]
@=.current
stephan();
-Original Message-
From: Chris January [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the
length of
the
names -
/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersi
on/S
hell\ Extensions/Approved/\{BDEADF00-C265-11d0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F\}
is a
bit
hard to type in by accident...
At the moment, I have called the default key value, (default), the
same as regedit. Does anyone have any objections to this (and if so a
better suggestion)? The brackets can't be typed into bash without being
quoted; this might become a bit of a pain.
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