On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:51:44 +0200 =?KOI8-R?B?z8zYx8Egy9LZ1sHOz9fTy8HR?= wrote: > The Windows registry is accessible through the file system? Or is this > a file system like api in UWIN?
if you dig into win32 with UNIX glasses on you will see time and again ~10 function apis to access resources that could have been done in the filesystem with no api changes required the registry is one instance of that the plethora of functions to handle 32 vs 64 bit in the registry/filesystem is another so no, the registry is not accesible via win32 filesystem calls but through UWIN it is the maddening part is that there is no pattern to these apis if you learn one there is no guarantee that you can use that knowledge to predict the api calls and/or semantics of the next UWIN provides UNIX pathnames and filesystem, modulo case-ignorance and leverages that to hide the win32 apis that should have never been exposed in the first place like the registry and wow 32/64 UNIX implementations have had similar problems but somewhat more controlled than win32 they are finally coming around with /proc and /sys if only the IP namespace were done in the filesystem ... the filesystem is a beautiful thing hang new semantics on it and chances are *we already have the commands and system calls to access and manipulate it* _______________________________________________ uwin-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users
