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Re: Reading /proc/registry/... returns extra char
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> BTW, is there a way to create value of certain type through /proc/registry ?
>> (Link to documentation would be enough, I don't have local cygwin installation ATM)
> No, there isn't. There were the occasional discussions on the
> developer's ML since the virtual /proc/registry filesystem has been
> introduced, but to no avail yet. The problem is to find a unique *and*
> posixy way to identify the type of a registry value when writing it,
> since, basically, every write access to a value also determines its
> type.
Erm... how about ":type" suffix? Don't know how "POSIXy" it is, but it's close
enough to similar functionality of NTFS (file streams).
echo "some value" > /proc/registry/key/var:type
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 01.06.2010, <3:35>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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