On Dec 4 11:37, ColdShine wrote: > 2008/12/2 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > [...] the problem is [...] that Windows allows the registry to violate > > filesystem semantics by giving the same name to distinct contents. > > If I'm allowed to add some further examples (which are probably known > to most, but maybe not to all), registry value names allow *any* > Unicode character (including NUL, sic! - thanks UNICODE_STRING), so > the following is completely ambiguous, even though valid: > > /proc/registry/.../parentkey/subkey/value/with/slashes > > where the actual value name is "value/with/slashes" (sic!).
That's why Cygwin prints the file name as /proc/registry/.../parentkey/subkey/value%2Fwith%2Fslashes thanks to a patch from Christian Franke. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
