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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:05:58 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cygrunsrv --recovery <action>
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On Oct  6 13:52, Rainer Hochreiter wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:17:49 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Erm?!?  Of course you should write directly to the registry.  That's how
> > writing the description field is implemented to stay NT4 compatible.  So
> > just copy the behaviour for writing the actions parameter.
> 
> but who guarantees that writing directly to the registry will be 
> compliant to upcoming windows version?

Nobody.  But in that case we change cygrunsrv to write the parameters
differently into the registry if newer NT versions require that, no?

Corinna

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