Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/09/17:09:47
Igor,
Thanks for the pointer - it looks to be very useful.
Kind regards,
Ken.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:16 PM
To: Ken Robson
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: 1.3.17(0.67/3/2): Bug With /proc/registry & / Interpretation...
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Ken Robson wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have been using cygwin for some time and have recently being playing
> with the /proc/registry facility. I have discovered that when I do
> finds in this namespace that if any key names have a "/" in then it is
> not quoted. So for
> example:
>
> [snip example and registry data]
>
> I apologise that I do not have sufficient knowledge of cygwin to fix
> this myself.
>
> Thanks for your time and help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ken.
Ken,
The fact that "/" is a valid character in key/value names in the registry,
but is not a valid character in filenames (in either Windows or Unix) makes
this more of a design issue. No amount of quoting will let you create a
file with a '/' in its name.
In the meantime, check out /bin/regtool which allows arbitrary characters in
both key and value names (and a -K switch to set a custom separator).
Igor
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