On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, linda w wrote: > 2 questions on the registry access in /proc. > 1) Any idea on why find would choke on registry subtrees containing ":"? Is > some part of the path expansion going through Windows?
Yes. Cygwin will not process paths that contain a ":" -- perhaps erroneously, as it should probably check that the ":" is the second character, preceded by a letter. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. > 2) The user-guide implies read-write access to the registry-fs: > > "As anytime you deal with the Windows registry, use caution since > changes may result in an unstable or broken system." > > But I tried removing a value (that I can remove through regedit) > and get a "read-only filesystem" error message. Is there something > I need to do to make it writeable? Yes -- submit a patch to Cygwin. ;-) Seriously, though, the /proc/registry handler does not support write access to the registry. The above is a standard disclaimer, though I believe whoever put this in the description of /proc/registry was a bit overzealous. FWIW, if you want to use Cygwin tools to manipulate the registry, you can use 'regtool'. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/
