Re: /proc registry access

2004-09-04 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:54 PM 9/3/2004, you wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>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. . >> >--- > Do you think i

Re: /proc registry access

2004-09-04 Thread Brian Dessent
linda w wrote: > gotta figure out how to get cvs to work through a proxy and, maybe > better, set up a cross development environment on linux. I lost the > last simple set of instructions I had to build the setup command...sigh. > > I think for the proxy bit, I seem to remember having to use a s

Re: /proc registry access

2004-09-03 Thread linda w
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: 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. . --- Do you think it would be desirable to have cygwin not encumber

Re: /proc registry access

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
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,

/proc registry access

2004-09-03 Thread linda w
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? 2) The user-guide implies read-write access to the registry-fs: "As anytime you deal with the Windows registry, use caut