Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote: > > > Suggestion to those who know about these things: being able to go > > > > file /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/blahblahblah > > > > and have it return the type would be way cool. Or would that involve a > > really ugly

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-08 Thread andrew brian clegg
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > Suggestion to those who know about these things: being able to go > > > > file /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/blahblahblah > > > > and have it return the type would be way cool. Or would that involve a > > really ugly hack? > > Kinda, 'cos `file'

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-08 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > Conversely is there a way to determine the type when reading? It > > > appears that Cygwin does what you expect (e.g. returning a \0 delimited > > > list for REG_MULTI_SZ) but is there any way t

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-08 Thread andrew brian clegg
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Conversely is there a way to determine the type when reading? It > > appears that Cygwin does what you expect (e.g. returning a \0 delimited > > list for REG_MULTI_SZ) but is there any way to ask it directly? > > Not that I know of. Look at fhan

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-08 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:37:10AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: > >>Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it > >>if one could use commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on t

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:19:57AM +0100, William S Fulton wrote: > > > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? > > > > It is already. Try `ls -l /proc/registry' > > Neat. Is there any way to tell the ty

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:19:57AM +0100, William S Fulton wrote: > > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? > > It is already. Try `ls -l /proc/registry' Neat. Is there any way to tell the type of the key's value using this interface? For exampl

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:37:10AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: > >>Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it > >>if one could use commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on t

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:37:10AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: >>Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it >>if one could use commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on the registry, >>treating keys as directories and values

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it if one could > use > commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on the registry, treating keys as directories > and > values as files. I have a vague recollection of a posting about thi

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, William S Fulton wrote: > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it if one could > use > commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on the registry, treating keys as directories > and > values as files. I have a vague recollection of a posting about thi

Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:19:57AM +0100, William S Fulton wrote: > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? It is already. Try `ls -l /proc/registry' Corinna -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.ht

RE: Mount Windows registry into filesystem

2003-07-07 Thread "Schaible, Jörg"
Tried /prog/registry yet ? William S Fulton wrote: > Is it possible to mount the registry into the filesystem? I'd love it > if one could use commands like 'ls', 'diff' and 'find' on the > registry, treating keys as directories and > values as files. I have a vague recollection of a posting about