Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:04:41 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Avoid duplicate names in /proc/registry (which may crash find) 	?
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On Dec  2 14:38, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > - Do we really need d_type support in the registry?  How often is that
> > actually used?
> > 
> 
> /proc/registry is probably rarely used, so d_type support is not
> important.
> But adding it would be trivial and the effect is significant:
> Speed up of  "oldfind" (which does not crash :-) is >= 2.

Right.  Just send it to cygwin-patches.

> [...]
> > - /proc/registry is a convenience for reading the registry.  Due to
> > some funny definitions of the registry it's not a full solution.  You
> > can't write this way, you can't even access the "(Default)" key
> > values.
> 
> Access to (Default) works for me with "/proc/registry/.../key/@"

Unfortunately you can create a parallel value or key called @.  Even
both.  Back to start? :)

> > I personally don't worry if some border cases don't work.  For the
> > border cases and for the full access we have regtool.
> > 
> > Having said that, I really don't know what's the best solution for
> > these problems would be.  None of the above ideas are very attractive.
> > For instance, in idea 1, the path would actually be
> > 
> > /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.key/SOFTWARE.key/Cygwin.key/blub.val
> 
> or:
> 
> 3.  Add an extension (describing its type) to value only:
> 
> /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Cygwin/blub.type
> 
> But then a possible "somekey.type" should be escaped ...

Yep, never ending story...

> > Shouldn't we rather defer these border cases to regtool?
> 
> Yes, further enhancements to /proc/registry are probably not worth the
> effort.
> 
> Hmm... "/proc/registry/..." pathnames as an alternative for the
> KEY/VALUE parameters of regtool would allow to use shell tab-completion
> and therefore enhance usability (?).

Hmm... that sounds like a good idea to me.  That would probably actually
enhance usablilty.  Feel free to hack away on regtool.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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