X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:33:05 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: regtool gives different results than reg Message-ID: <20100211083305.GF28659@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Feb 10 16:50, Greg Couch wrote: > My system is a 64-bit Windows 7 system with the latest cygwin installed > and Corinna's unsupported cyglsa64.dll from 29 Jan 2010. And for this bug > I have the 64-bit version of Python 2.6.4 installed (not cygwin's) and I'm > doing these tests on the console, not ssh (but the same bug appears when > ssh'd in). > > So in the cygwin shell: > > $ regtool get /machine/SOFTWARE/Python/PythonCore/2.6/InstallPath > Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified. > > $ regtool list /machine/SOFTWARE/Python/PythonCore/2.6 > Modules > > $ reg query > "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Python\\PythonCore\\2.6" > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\Modules > > But if I run a cmd.exe shell directly (not from a cygwin shell), I get > everything I expect: > > >reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6 > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\Help > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\InstallPath > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\Modules > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\PythonPath > > Any ideas as to how I could workaround this bug? Did you try the regtool -w option? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#regtool 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