[Patch] Avoid duplicate names in /proc/registry (which may crash find)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Dec 12 16:11:00 GMT 2008


On Dec 12 08:49, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/12/2008 8:20 AM:
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> > Here's a question which occured to me when reading the doc after I had
> > applied it.  There's apparently still a problem which is, how do you
> > read the default value of a key if a value called '@' exists?  Do you
> > have an idea for a simple solution?
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> "@" for the named value, and "%.val" for the unnamed default?

Backward compatibility would ask for sticking to @ for the default
value.  Actually there could be a key and a value called @ so you
have three @ items. :-P


Corinna

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