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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 15:00:33 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/registry
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:15:50PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Daniel Adams wrote:
>
>>/proc/registry/*
>>
>>is a GREAT idea!
>
>Okay folks, enough with the "me toos".  Suffice it to say that
>everybody thinks this is a wonderful idea.  Not surprisingly, the
>suggestion of a /dev/registry or /proc/registry HAS been made before.
>And everybody thought it was a great idea then, too.
>
>There's only one problem: back then, after the initial round of
>self-congratulation and "great idea -- me too-ism" -- nobody did the
>work.  I suspect the same thing will be true this time, as well.
>
>Somebody please astonish me and provide the code.
>
>--Chuck
>
>(*) P.S.  "back then" somebody mentioned a few problems with
>file-system access to registry entries: how do you deal with the
>various types -- DWORD, BINARY, STRING, (and the other types that
>AREN'T accessible via regedit...) Just something to keep in mind, if
>somebody actually tries to write some code for this...

Thanks, Chuck.

Actually someone (Egor?) did write code and, you're right, about the problems
and the "me toos".

Just to be clear /dev/registry is wrong for the same reason as we used
/cygdrive/a rather than /dev/a.

cgf

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