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: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:36:21 +0100 From: Elfyn McBratney X-X-Sender: elfyn@ellixia Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem In-Reply-To: <20030707130825.GA30999@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <3F092D2D.6010709@fultondesigns.co.uk> <20030707130825.GA30999@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:37:10AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: > >>Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it > >>if one could use commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on the registry, > >>treating keys as directories and values as files. I have a vague > >>recollection of a posting about this a long while back, but I can't for > >>the life of me find it. Ultimately my goal is to get a diff from two > >>different registry roots. The regtool utility doesn't seem so > >>flexible. Any pointers much appreciated. > > > >This feature is partially available now and will be fully functional, > >IIRC, in the next CYgwin release. > > ? It's as available now as it will be in the next release. I'm not > aware of any improvements for 1.5.0. Sorry, I've been spending ages in the -developers archives and probably got confused with some post there :-) Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB http://www.emcb.co.uk elfyn@emcb.co.uk -- 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/