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 11:38:15 +0100 (BST) From: andrew brian clegg X-X-Sender: fcleg01@sark.cryst.bbk.ac.uk To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact CCSG (http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/CCSG/) more information X-MailScanner-cryst-bbk: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-31.6, required 9, BAYES_01, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, QUOTE_TWICE_1, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_PINE) On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > Suggestion to those who know about these things: being able to go > > > > file /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/blahblahblah > > > > and have it return the type would be way cool. Or would that involve a > > really ugly hack? > > Kinda, 'cos `file' uses stock source (i.e. fileutils) and this would require > changing it somewhat. That's what I was afraid of, spreading cygwarts all over things like file might not endear us to the rest of the posix world :) Andrew. -- 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/