Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote: > > > Suggestion to those who know about these things: being able to go > > > > file /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/blahblahblah > > > > and have it return the type would be way cool. Or would that involve a > > really ugly

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-08 Thread andrew brian clegg
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > Suggestion to those who know about these things: being able to go > > > > file /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/blahblahblah > > > > and have it return the type would be way cool. Or would that involve a > > really ugly hack? > > Kinda, 'cos `file'

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-08 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > 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 t

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-08 Thread andrew brian clegg
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > 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 fhan

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-08 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:37:10AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: > >>Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it > >>if one could use commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on t

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
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 ty

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
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 exampl

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:37:10AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: > >>Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it > >>if one could use commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on t

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:37:10AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: >>Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it >>if one could use commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on the registry, >>treating keys as directories and values

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it if one could > use > commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on the registry, treating keys as directories > and > values as files. I have a vague recollection of a posting about thi

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it if one could > use > commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on the registry, treating keys as directories > and > values as files. I have a vague recollection of a posting about thi

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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' Corinna -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.ht

RE: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread "Schaible, Jörg"
Tried /prog/registry yet ? William S Fulton wrote: > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it > if one could use commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on the > registry, treating keys as directories and > values as files. I have a vague recollection of a posting about

Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread William S Fulton
Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it if one could use commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on the registry, treating keys as directories and values as files. I have a vague recollection of a posting about this a long while back, but I can't for the life of me fi