Mount Windows registry into filesystem

andrew brian clegg a.clegg@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
Tue Jul 8 11:01:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> > Suggestion to those who know about these things: being able to go
> >
> > file /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/blahblahblah
> >
> > and have it return the type would be way cool. Or would that involve a
> > really ugly hack?
> 
> Kinda, 'cos `file' uses stock source (i.e. fileutils) and this would require
> changing it somewhat.

That's what I was afraid of, spreading cygwarts all over things like file 
might not endear us to the rest of the posix world :)

Andrew.



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