Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: From: Glen Coakley To: cygwin Subject: RE: Can regtool be used to rename a key? Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 16:50:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I don't know of such function. But, you could do it the hard way with regtool by 1) get the old key value 2) create the new key name & value 3) delete the old key. The order was listed this way to avoid a race condition in case some program was trying to read that key while you were 'renaming' it. ________________________________ Glen Coakley, Sr. Software Engineer MQSoftware Inc., (763) 543-4845 "Tinkero ergo sum." -- Chuck Murcko > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Starsmeare [mailto:keith_starsmeare AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk] > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:35 AM > To: cygwin > Subject: Can regtool be used to rename a key? > > > I'd like to be able to script a method of renaming a key. Is > there a simple > way of doing it using regtool? > > I couldn't figure it out, so I had a look at the source, but > I've never > programmed the registry before - so I'm naturally a little > hesitant. I was > hoping that there'd be a RegMoveKey or RegRenameKey similar to the > RegDeleteKey, but no. The closest I could see in the MSDN was > RegReplaceKey. > Has anyone with any experience of registry programming got > any advice (which > you could email to me directly if there's the worry that discussing > programming the registry if OT)? > > Also, as an aside, how do you recommend giving patches if you > can't access > the cvs server because I'm behind a firewall? I downloaded > the file from the > web site. > > Incidentally, is there a reason that regtool likes > backslashes so much? > They're a pain in the butt from the command line. I submit > this wee tweak so > that I could use slashes for the keys: > > *** regtool.cc Wed Jun 27 15:24:43 2001 > --- regtool.cc.txt Wed Jun 27 15:16:22 2001 > *************** > *** 194,206 **** > int i; > if (*n == '/') > translate (n); > ! while ((*n == '\\') || (*n == '/')) > n++; > ! for (e = n; *e && *e != '\\' && *e != '/'; e++); > ! if (*e == '/') > ! c = '\\'; > ! else > ! c = *e; > *e = 0; > for (i = 0; wkprefixes[i].string; i++) > if (strcmp (wkprefixes[i].string, n) == 0) > --- 194,203 ---- > int i; > if (*n == '/') > translate (n); > ! while (*n == '\\') > n++; > ! for (e = n; *e && *e != '\\'; e++); > ! c = *e; > *e = 0; > for (i = 0; wkprefixes[i].string; i++) > if (strcmp (wkprefixes[i].string, n) == 0) > > Cheers > > Keith > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/