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Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem
- From: andrew brian clegg <a dot clegg at mail dot cryst dot bbk dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:31:02 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem
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 fhandler_registry.cc for implementation
> details.
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?
Andrew.
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