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 Message-ID: <3F0A2D4B.BBBE8BBF@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:32:43 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem References: <3F092D2D.6010709@fultondesigns.co.uk> <20030707093537.GJ1165@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:19:57AM +0100, William S Fulton wrote: > > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? > > It is already. Try `ls -l /proc/registry' Neat. Is there any way to tell the type of the key's value using this interface? For example if I wanted to modify a key's value through "echo foo > /prog/registry/.../Key", how do I tell Cygwin that I want the type to be REG_EXPAND_SZ, REG_DWORD, REG_MULTI_SZ, REG_SZ, etc? Conversely is there a way to determine the type when reading? It appears that Cygwin does what you expect (e.g. returning a \0 delimited list for REG_MULTI_SZ) but is there any way to ask it directly? This is yet another really cool Cygwin feature that I had no idea about until now... :-) Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/