On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:57:46PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:56:11PM +0000, Luciano wrote: >>>Registry keys! Of course. Windows programmers can't live without good >>>old hard-to-backup-and-restore Registry keys. >>:-( >> >>Um, it's the mount table. Use mount -m to backup your mounts. That is >>why it was designed. > >Sorry, but not quite. There are some settings there besides mounts, >notably "heap_chunk_in_mb" and "Program Options". Until there's a >command-line tool to access those (well, regtool, of course, but that's >more of a hack), backing up the registry is the only choice.
I'm not sure why regtool would be considered a hack in this context but I would submit that anyone who is initially perplexed by the fact that cygwin uses the registry is undoubtedly not using heap_chunk_in_mb or "Program Options". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
