On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:12:01PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: > On 03 March 2006 09:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > Btw., since you seem to be interested in hacking the registry... would > > you also be interested to introduce registry write access below > > /proc/registry inside of the Cygwin DLL? That would be extra cool. > > I'm not quite sure how to handle the mapping from file types to > > registry key types, but there might be some simple way which I'm just > > too blind to see. > > > Hey, how about using pseudo filename-extensions on the pseudo-files that > represent registry keys?
As long as we are how-bouting, I'm looking at http://search.cpan.org/~tyemq/Win32-TieRegistry-0.24/TieRegistry.pm as another example of non-traditional access to the registry. How about /proc/registry//machinename/... to access the registry of other computers on the network? Or is // not at the beginning a no-no?
