Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/11/21/14:26:43
On 11/21/09, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> 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.
Eh, this was supposed to be one non-controversial if tangential observation
that did happen to point to a likely issue relevant to OP and who
knows who starts out by reading a windoze env variable. I don't really
want to discuss this further, I didn't think it would get this
involved, you are probably right but FWIW. I'd imagine they are
supposed to be safe and a problem like this would have probably shown
up by now but I'm actually not all that sure that concurrent registry
updates would be tested all that much-
when is the last time you openned two registry editors while 5
installs were running? ( rhetorical question LOL ).
>
> In the meantime, I'm going to try teaching my dog to play the piano.
>
> cgf
>
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