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From: "Ph. Marek" <marek AT bmlv DOT gv DOT at>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: patch for /proc/registry read/write??
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:48:20 +0200
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Hello everybody,

I've just downloaded the 1.3.12-2 version and was surprised to see that the 
registry-patch (which was heavily discussed in february, if I recall 
correctly) has made it into the mainline.

But one question remains: Is there a patch for read/write support? I know that 
this starts the old problem of specifying the kind of value (dword, sz, 
multi-sz, binary, ...) but maybe this could by done by the extension 
(possibly seperated by a : as this ain't used in cygwin), so eg. name:sz or 
value:dword.

What I'd like to achieve is to use rsync on the registry - to get the registry 
into a known state.


I don't think that the naming scheme gives consistency problems - if I write a 
file name:sz it isn't guaranteed (in unix semantics) that name:dword isn't 
deleted in the same moment.


Any help appreciated!


Regards,

Phil



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