Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/26/12:24:39
* Christopher Faylor (2005-10-26 15:37 +0100)
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>>* gtg793x AT mail DOT gatech DOT edu (2005-10-26 00:45 +0100)
>>> Quoting Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>:
>>>> See "man mount". Please, please, please don't manipulate the registry
>>>> directly if you want to stay portable. You can easily create a batch file
>>>> to reproduce the mounts properly.
>>>> ...
>>>> "User mounts" is the answer. The CURRENT_USER tree is usually writable.
>>>> Make sure you don't write over the existing settings if they are present.
>>>
>>> Current XP computers I am trying to run this into give me: "Registry Editing has
>>> been Disabled by your administrator." even if I try to write to Current_User
>>>
>>> All I am trying to keep portable is the X server thus XWIN.exe is the only
>>> executable I have, the only one I execute. After running the X server as the
>>> background server I am tunneling the packets using Putty / Securecrt.
>>
>>Try "regedit /s" in a batch (instead of double clicking). This
>>sometimes works.
>
> Or, I dunno, if that works, you could just use "mount" and forget about
> regedit entirely.
>
> It's a crazy idea, I know. I wonder why no one has thought of it before.
*I* didn't know about it (because I was under the impression that all
cygwin programs depend on the mount tables).
Well, obviously there are a few that don't (mount, cygcheck, ash (?),
etc.?)
And I think it's easier to just import a reg file than dealing with
multiple mount commands...
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