Chris January wrote: >>Chris & Chris, >> >>Cool! >> >>Is the registry as reflected in /proc/registry writable? >> > I'm torn between writing "no", and "no, not yet". > The problem with this is that it is inevitable that at some point or other > someone will post to the cygwin mailing list complaining they typed rm -rf > /proc/registry/* and now their system is hosed and it's all Red Hat's > fault... > Certainly there would have to be some kind of 'safety' mechanism, whereby by > default /proc/registry was read-only, but somehow it could be made writable, > perhaps by writing '1' to /proc/registry/.writable or something.
That might work --- but I'd make it auto-reset after every atomic write. So, you have to say $ cat '1' > /proc/registry/.writeable $ <access one single "file" in the registry> $ cat /proc/registry/.writable 0 --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
