Thanks Wez. Regmon showed a series of registry accesses by php.exe, all reading.
looks like <snip>registry might be doing something funky to handle locking</snip> is probably the case. -d ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wez Furlong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dietrich Ayala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:42 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php-win32 writing to system32 dir? > It could be PHP looking for the per-directory configuration settings > from the registry. (PHP makes the accesses in read-only mode, but the > registry might be doing something funky to handle locking). > > OR, it could be a dll that is loaded by one of your PHP extensions. > > Have you tried using a tool such as regmon to spy on it? > > http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml > > --Wez. > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Dietrich Ayala wrote: > > > Thanks, but I tried that one straight away :) It's locked down, cannot even > > copy it. > > > > Do any php-win developers have any idea why this is happening? I'm assuming > > php is making some system call to write data to the hive, as it's not > > accessible directly. It makes the same 3 writes every time it loads. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php