Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/07/23:57:25
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:48:49PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote:
>>Can you give an example of some of the clever ideas in uwin? I know
>>that they have some sort of setuid daemon or something like that but it
>>has been a while since I really investigated U/WIN.
>
>I liked the /dev/clipboard idea. I mentioned this awhile ago, and I
>believe someone implemented this at least partially in cygwin - Charles
>was it?
Yep. Charles implemented a read-only version of /dev/clipboard. It
would be nice for someone to augment this. I don't think I could sell
devoting development time for this, though.
>Uwin also has a wrapper around Visual C++ that will parse unix style
>args, and then convert them to the appropriate VC++ args. That type of
>thing would be useful to me from a work perspective, as we use our own
>make system along with VC++. If you have VC++ installed, Uwin will
>grab the root directory of it from the registry, and mount it on
>something like /msdev.
This would be another hard sell. I wouldn't mind including a wrapper in
the Cygwin installation, though, assuming that we could make it
selectable somehow. I even wrote one of these in a past life.
>The other thing it does in regards to mounts, is mount the system
>directory in a standard place,
I'm not sure I know what you mean by this.
>it will mount the registry as a filesystem.
I've always thought that this was an interesting idea. Someone (Egor
Duda?) has indicated that it isn't as easy as it sounds. I think that
someone has actually done a proof of concept of this, too.
>Now whether this is a good idea or not is certainly debateable. Can
>you imagine the enraged emails from newbies that have just trashed
>their OS install after manipulating the registry?
Shudder.
cgf
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