Igor, Thanks for the pointer - it looks to be very useful.
Kind regards, Ken. -- pos: Technical Services Engineer dir: +44 (0) 20 7643 2778 web: www.egenera.com fax: +44 (0) 20 7643 2201 eml: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mob: +44 (0) 79 7613 5756 map: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=532575&y=181097&z=1 ************************************************************* This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ************************************************************* -----Original Message----- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:16 PM To: Ken Robson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 1.3.17(0.67/3/2): Bug With /proc/registry & / Interpretation... On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Ken Robson wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have been using cygwin for some time and have recently being playing > with the /proc/registry facility. I have discovered that when I do > finds in this namespace that if any key names have a "/" in then it is > not quoted. So for > example: > > [snip example and registry data] > > I apologise that I do not have sufficient knowledge of cygwin to fix > this myself. > > Thanks for your time and help. > > Kind regards, > Ken. Ken, The fact that "/" is a valid character in key/value names in the registry, but is not a valid character in filenames (in either Windows or Unix) makes this more of a design issue. No amount of quoting will let you create a file with a '/' in its name. In the meantime, check out /bin/regtool which allows arbitrary characters in both key and value names (and a -K switch to set a custom separator). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
