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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:35:45 +0100
From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn AT emcb DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote:

>
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > > Conversely is there a way to determine the type when reading?  It
> > > appears that Cygwin does what you expect (e.g. returning a \0 delimited
> > > list for REG_MULTI_SZ) but is there any way to ask it directly?
> >
> > Not that I know of.  Look at fhandler_registry.cc for implementation
> > details.
>
> Suggestion to those who know about these things: being able to go
>
> file /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/blahblahblah
>
> and have it return the type would be way cool. Or would that involve a
> really ugly hack?

Kinda, 'cos `file' uses stock source (i.e. fileutils) and this would require
changing it somewhat. It wouldn't be hard to add this as an option to regtool,
however.

Elfyn

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