Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 20:30:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality Message-ID: <20020503003040.GA712@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020502163048.026f8bb0@pop3.cris.com> <00ea01c1f237$8c421a70$0100a8c0@advent02> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00ea01c1f237$8c421a70$0100a8c0@advent02> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:14:52AM +0100, Chris January wrote: >> Chris & Chris, >> >> Cool! >> >> Is the registry as reflected in /proc/registry writable? >I'm torn between writing "no", and "no, not yet". >The problem with this is that it is inevitable that at some point or other >someone will post to the cygwin mailing list complaining they typed rm -rf >/proc/registry/* and now their system is hosed and it's all Red Hat's >fault... Yeah, I'd be waiting for that. Right now, I'm waiting for the first "I upgraded cygwin and now my /proc directory has strange stuff in it!" message. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/