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From: "Ken Robson" <krobson AT egenera DOT com>
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Subject: RE: 1.3.17(0.67/3/2): Bug With /proc/registry & / Interpretation...
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:09:25 -0000
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Igor,

Thanks for the pointer - it looks to be very useful.

Kind regards,

Ken.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu] 
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:16 PM
To: Ken Robson
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: 1.3.17(0.67/3/2): Bug With /proc/registry & / Interpretation...


On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Ken Robson wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I have been using cygwin for some time and have recently being playing 
> with the /proc/registry facility.  I have discovered that when I do 
> finds in this namespace that if any key names have a "/" in then it is 
> not quoted.  So for
> example:
>
> [snip example and registry data]
>
> I apologise that I do not have sufficient knowledge of cygwin to fix 
> this myself.
>
> Thanks for your time and help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ken.

Ken,

The fact that "/" is a valid character in key/value names in the registry,
but is not a valid character in filenames (in either Windows or Unix) makes
this more of a design issue.  No amount of quoting will let you create a
file with a '/' in its name.

In the meantime, check out /bin/regtool which allows arbitrary characters in
both key and value names (and a -K switch to set a custom separator).
	Igor
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