Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/11/21/13:52:07
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 06:54:37PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>mike marchywka wrote:
>>On XP, go to control panel->System->Advanced ->Envireonment Variables.
>>These do no appear to be process specific. These are what I was
>>talking about where I saw garbage,
>
>Since registry accesses are atomic and serialized, whatever you saw
>there must reflect exactly the gibberish that some process wrote into
>the registry, owing to a bug in that process (or maybe in some hook
>process, or faulty ram or other hardware in your PC); it was not the
>outcome of two threads trying to write to the registry at the same
>time.
>
>And, as indeed you hypothesize, none of this is to do with Cygwin, so
>we should TITTTL if there's anything else you want to ask about the
>windows environment block and how it is implemented and handled in a
>thread-safe and process-safe fashion; I don't mind going into further
>detail if you're curious, but I want to leave the main list out of it
>now.
Yes, please take it to the talk list.
In the meantime, I'm going to try teaching my dog to play the piano.
cgf
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