Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000905103613.00b43d90@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:37:43 -0400 To: Egor Duda From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: DLL naming conventions In-Reply-To: <1785565422.20000905183139@logos-m.ru> References: <20000905123712.13787.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com> <20000905123712.13787.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:31 AM 9/5/2000, Egor Duda wrote: >Hi! > >Tuesday, 05 September, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote: > >EB> --- Chris Faylor wrote: > >> > >> Of course, if we ever write our "registry as a file system" module for > >> cygwin, you could have a tar file which extracted executables to /bin > >> and registry information to /registry/LocalMachine/Software/... > >> > >EB> Hey, I like this. So then, `ls /registry/LocalMachine/Software' should then >EB> list the registry. Cool, just cool. > >not so cool as you can think. i've implemented such "plugin" to >cygwin somewhere around 1998, and ls /registry/LocalMachine/Software >worked ok. and > >cat "/registry/CurrentUser/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v2/cygdrive prefix" > >worked ok too. but when i dug into this, i couldn't find good mapping >from registry semantics to unix-stype file system semantics. for >example, registry values can be of several different types -- string, >multistring, binary, dword, etc. what should this be looking like in >fs tree? > >putting /registry/.../ into tar.gz should work, though, if only we'll >use string type values only. > >Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 Hm, just curious but did you look at what UWIN? According to the documentation, they have such a file system. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com