X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 10:14:12 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Reading /proc/registry/... returns extra char Message-ID: <20100531081411.GE16885@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20100513181249.GE13784@cupro.opengvs.com> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F2F01D44@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <20100526114733.GG10652@calimero.vinschen.de> <1254830174.20100526174227@mtu-net.ru> <20100526143428.GN10652@calimero.vinschen.de> <326990670.20100530001515@mtu-net.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <326990670.20100530001515@mtu-net.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On May 30 00:15, Andrey Repin wrote: > BTW, is there a way to create value of certain type through /proc/registry ? > (Link to documentation would be enough, I don't have local cygwin installation ATM) No, there isn't. There were the occasional discussions on the developer's ML since the virtual /proc/registry filesystem has been introduced, but to no avail yet. The problem is to find a unique *and* posixy way to identify the type of a registry value when writing it, since, basically, every write access to a value also determines its type. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple