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Re: writing to /proc file system

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:04:39 +0100
Subject: Re: writing to /proc file system
References: <b609cb3b0803041522i76007fc4m6fcf964e1542e8a3@mail.gmail.com> <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B6570929ABF0@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov>
Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com

On Mar  5 09:29, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> On 3/4/08, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > /proc is not writable on Cygwin.
> 
> (I suppose that the above carries a hidden request to add regtool-type
> functions to the cygwin1.dll.

We started to discuss this a couple of times, but we have never found a
way how to define the registry value type when using file access
functions in a somewhat POSIXy way.


Corinna

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References:
- Re: writing to /proc file system
  - From: NightStrike
- RE: writing to /proc file system
  - From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]

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