Subject: RE: New snapshot with significant new functionality
From: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
To: "Charles Wilson" <[email-masked]>, "Chris January" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:57:09 +1000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:46 PM

> That might work --- but I'd make it auto-reset after every 
> atomic write. 
>   So, you have to say
>    $ cat '1' > /proc/registry/.writeable
> 
>   $ <access one single "file" in the registry>
> 
>    $ cat /proc/registry/.writable
>    0

Two things: if /proc/registry isn't writable, cating 1 to
/proc/registry/.writeable won't work - without special case code. I'd
suggest /proc/sysopts/fs/registry/writeable.

Two, why not have two options:
writeable
nextwrite

one is persistent (until all cygwin processes end). The other is for a
single transaction.

Rob

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