On May 26 17:42, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> > $ cat >a.dat > >> > /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Syst > >> > emBootDevice > > > This trailing NUL character was always there, already with Cygwin 1.5. > > It's part of the file content. If strings are stored with a trailing > > NUL in a file, you don't want Cygwin to remove it for you, right? > > Wrong. The training NULL is a string value terminator for REG_SZ variables, > also a string separator for REG_MULTI_SZ ones. (Which ends with a spare NULL) > It must not be exposed to the user.
I disagree. When you're using tools like regtool, you're right. But when accessing the registry as *files* via the virtual /proc filesystem, you want the file content. And the file contains the trailing NUL in REG_SZ and REG_EXPAND_SZ values, and multiple NULs in REG_MULTI_SZ values. What do you suppose Cygwin should do with the NULs in REG_MULTI_SZ values? Just remove them? > BTW, get it as a bugreport - reading REG_MULTI_SZ from /proc/registry returns > only first string. Yep, that's a bug. I'll look into it. Thanks for the report, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
