/dev/registry

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:43:15PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>===
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz@cris.com>
>>The suggestion about ioctl() begs the question of where to get the file
>>descriptor to which to apply the ioctl() call, and does not open the
>>registry to scripting languages that have no direct access to the
>>Cygwin or Windows APIs.  It does not really simplify the task of adding
>>the ability to Cygwin, but obscures the basic access behind the obscure
>>and overloaded catch-all interface that is ioctl().  It is true that
>>this would make inadvertent registry corruption less likely, but it
>>only by virtue of making so much less accessible.
>
>Yah.  I've been quite on this one.  I'd like to point out that Cygwin
>has had a patch for /dev/registry some time ago.

I just did a search and I can't see any formal submittal of a patch.

Was this your patch?  I seem to find some reference to this in a
"work in progress" version of your UMSDOS stuff.

cgf

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