> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Randall R Schulz > At 13:59 2003-07-23, Chris January wrote: > > > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > > At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: > > > >>I would wish to tell find not to get involved with the > /proc filesystem > > > >>at all. Can that easily be done? > > > > > > > > Very easily: > > > > % find / -path '/proc' -prune -o -print > > > > > > Would it make sense to identify the inodes under /proc/registry as not > > > regular files (type f), but, say, devices (or other such > special files)? > > > >No. > > > Chris, > > Just to clarify what may, due to quote trimming, appear to be a > suggestion I made, the idea about using a special inode type for the > /proc entries was not mine, it was David A. Cobb's.
Actually it was Shankar Unni's, but let's not split hairs... Shankar: It's not a good idea because i) there are no unix "special" file types that could reasonably correspond to registry values, ii) under the /proc filesystem in linux, all kinds of things show up as regular files, iii) setting the files to be "special" is not a good way to get find to ignore them. An extended mechanism for accessing /proc/registry is warranted, however, particular for writing to the registry but this is a separate discusssion. Randall: I really must get a better e-mail client! Chris -- 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/
