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From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To: "Stephan Mueller" <smueller AT microsoft DOT com>,
   "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:37:16 -0800
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Just another log on the fire, the Perl registry modules use "" for the
(default) value.

Even so, I'd lean toward "@" since it's hard to name a file "".

You may need to have an ioctl() to change the key separator.  '\' would
probably be ok, but difficult.  The problem with '/' might make it hard to
handle the cygwin mount tables.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Mueller" <smueller AT microsoft DOT com>
To: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 17:00
Subject: RE: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)


Another suggestion (I won't presume to say better):

.reg files refer to this value as @.  E.g.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes]
@=".current"

stephan();


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris January [mailto:chris AT atomice DOT net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:56 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)


> > 1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the
> > length of
the
> > names  -
> >
/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersi
on/S
> > hell\ Extensions/Approved/\{BDEADF00-C265-11d0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F\}
> > is a
bit
> > hard to type in by accident...
At the moment, I have called the default key value, "(default"), the
same as regedit. Does anyone have any objections to this (and if so a
better suggestion)? The brackets can't be typed into bash without being
quoted; this might become a bit of a pain.




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