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Re: [Patch] regtool: Add load/unload commands and --binary option
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:12:01PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 03 March 2006 09:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> >
> > Btw., since you seem to be interested in hacking the registry... would
> > you also be interested to introduce registry write access below
> > /proc/registry inside of the Cygwin DLL? That would be extra cool.
> > I'm not quite sure how to handle the mapping from file types to
> > registry key types, but there might be some simple way which I'm just
> > too blind to see.
>
>
> Hey, how about using pseudo filename-extensions on the pseudo-files that
> represent registry keys?
As long as we are how-bouting, I'm looking at
http://search.cpan.org/~tyemq/Win32-TieRegistry-0.24/TieRegistry.pm
as another example of non-traditional access to the registry. How
about /proc/registry//machinename/... to access the registry of other
computers on the network? Or is // not at the beginning a no-no?