Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)

2002-02-07 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Is the source code for this functionality accessible for download somewhere ? Chris January wrote: 1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the length of the names - /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/S hell\

/proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)

2002-02-06 Thread Chris January
Why can't this /dev/registry stuff be just an ioctl()? Open the /dev/registry node for the appropriate access, then use some ioctl()'s to read and write it. Put the /dev/null entry points for the read and write handlers for /dev/registry and you won't have that accidental corruption from

RE: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)

2002-02-06 Thread Ralf Habacker
Why can't this /dev/registry stuff be just an ioctl()? Open the /dev/registry node for the appropriate access, then use some ioctl()'s to read and write it. Put the /dev/null entry points for the read and write handlers for /dev/registry and you won't have that accidental corruption

Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)

2002-02-06 Thread Warren Young
Chris January wrote: I'll probably add some entries to /proc - ones commonly found on UNIX platforms maybe. Anyone have any favourites they wish to see? I don't know about favorite, but the only one that's even close to standardized across Unices is /proc/pid. And even that is nonstandard

Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)

2002-02-06 Thread Chris January
1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the length of the names - /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/S hell\ Extensions/Approved/\{BDEADF00-C265-11d0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F\} is a bit hard to type in by accident... At the moment, I

RE: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)

2002-02-06 Thread Stephan Mueller
, February 06, 2002 4:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry) 1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the length of the names - /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersi on/S hell\ Extensions/Approved

Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)

2002-02-06 Thread Michael A Chase
- From: Stephan Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris January [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 17:00 Subject: RE: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry) Another suggestion (I won't presume to say better): .reg files refer to this value as @. E.g. REGEDIT4