On 11/21/09, Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com> wrote: > 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. Eh, this was supposed to be one non-controversial if tangential observation that did happen to point to a likely issue relevant to OP and who knows who starts out by reading a windoze env variable. I don't really want to discuss this further, I didn't think it would get this involved, you are probably right but FWIW. I'd imagine they are supposed to be safe and a problem like this would have probably shown up by now but I'm actually not all that sure that concurrent registry updates would be tested all that much- when is the last time you openned two registry editors while 5 installs were running? ( rhetorical question LOL ).
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