X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:34:49 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bug: /registry file system doesn't return len of default value of keys Message-ID: <20090629093449.GB30864@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4A48343F.6000304@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A48343F.6000304@tlinx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jun 28 20:25, Linda Walsh wrote: > Hi all, > > I've run into some weird behavior from the file-utils (grep, file) but I > believe they may all be caused by the same root problem. > > The /prog/registry filesystem doesn't return the length of the 'default' > value (often a string). > > > Under /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ > I was grep'ing through ".txt/@" which I expected to find > the string "txtfile", but, I think because it is 0 len, grep thinks it is > a binary file (which I have my grep set to ignore). > > > Known bug? Is it in the queue to be fixed someday? :-) Works in Cygwin 1.7 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple