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 X-Authentication-Warning: homer.pentek.org: charles set sender to charles@pentek.com using -f Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:15:30 -0400 From: Charles Krug To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM Message-ID: <20020927131530.GA27809@pentek.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000b01c265df$b61ef630$4501a8c0@scrapbox> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000b01c265df$b61ef630$4501a8c0@scrapbox> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:38:21PM -0700, Doru Carastan wrote: > How about breaking free from using the windoze registry. There is > absolutely no special need to use it IMO. I'll second that. Relying on a single monolithic binary file for system critical information is an extraordinarily bad idea. A single ill-behaved program can render the system unbootable. AFAIK, the only thing that MUST be in there is the uninstall information. -- Charles Krug, Jr. Systems Engineer Pentek Corp 1 Park Way Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 -- 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/