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: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:57:34 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined & RFE, only use "/" in reg values, not names..?] Message-ID: <20040212185734.GC16089@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <402BC0EE.9070203@tlinx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >The only mechanism I can think of that is adversely affected by this >convention is /proc/registry, because of its attempt to map the >registry onto a filesystem. Because the registry doesn't have the same >set of invalid characters in names as the underlying filesystem, this >mapping sometimes fails, as in the case of mounts values. It might be >possible to change the /proc/registry implementation to translate "/"s >in key and value names to valid character combinations (e.g., URL >encoding). PTC. I've toyed with the idea of making /proc/registry a managed mount but since managed mounts don't allow '/' in a filename either, that would require some additional work on the managed stuff. cgf -- 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/