On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 06:54:37PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote: >mike marchywka wrote: >>On XP, go to control panel->System->Advanced ->Envireonment Variables. >>These do no appear to be process specific. These are what I was >>talking about where I saw garbage, > >Since registry accesses are atomic and serialized, whatever you saw >there must reflect exactly the gibberish that some process wrote into >the registry, owing to a bug in that process (or maybe in some hook >process, or faulty ram or other hardware in your PC); it was not the >outcome of two threads trying to write to the registry at the same >time. > >And, as indeed you hypothesize, none of this is to do with Cygwin, so >we should TITTTL if there's anything else you want to ask about the >windows environment block and how it is implemented and handled in a >thread-safe and process-safe fashion; I don't mind going into further >detail if you're curious, but I want to leave the main list out of it >now.
Yes, please take it to the talk list. In the meantime, I'm going to try teaching my dog to play the piano. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
