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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: writing to /proc file system
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On Mar  5 09:29, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> On 3/4/08, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > /proc is not writable on Cygwin.
> 
> (I suppose that the above carries a hidden request to add regtool-type
> functions to the cygwin1.dll.

We started to discuss this a couple of times, but we have never found a
way how to define the registry value type when using file access
functions in a somewhat POSIXy way.


Corinna

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