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Subject: RE: writing to /proc file system
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:29:31 -0500
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On 3/4/08, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar  4 10:12, Jeff Fulmer wrote:
>> I'd like to access and write to the /proc file system from a java
>> program. Can somebody steer me in the right direction? I'm starting
>> to feel that I've exhausted my search options...
> 
> /proc is not writable on Cygwin.

I would have thought that /proc/registry might be writable, at least
in as far as one had permissions to do so using other tools.

(I suppose that the above carries a hidden request to add regtool-type
functions to the cygwin1.dll.  That's not my intent; I almost never
modify the registry.)

- Barry

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