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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:33:20 +0100
From: Fabrice Marchal <fmarchal AT inf DOT ethz DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: mem allocation / heap_chunk
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Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:

> Fabrice Marchal wrote:
>
>> Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>
>>> Fabrice,
>>>
>>> It would seem that the answer is right there on the page you 
>>> referenced. You can script a change to that registry entry via the 
>>> Cygwin regtool script. You can do this in an install or post-install 
>>> script or upon each invocation of your application, providing it's 
>>> invoked via a script.
>>
>>
>>
>> I can write a script, but then it would require to install cygwin and 
>> bash (and maybe other things) for the
>> end-user, while at the moment I just provide the cygwin.dll. I was 
>> looking for something that uses the
>> cygwin_XXX API.
>
>
>
> There is no Cygwin API.  You might be able to do something with
> /proc/registry eventually.  Of course, you can always use Win32 APIs.

If I try to change the /proc/registry/.. ../Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb file, it
is an Administrator owned file and cannot be overwritten by a user. Is the
/proc/registry directory created each time a cygwin program starts?

Fabrice

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