/dev/registry

[Jon Foster]

Hi,

"Chris January" <chris@atomice.net> wrtote:
> How about adding a /dev/registry fhandler to Cygwin?
> Registry keys would be directories and values in the
> registry files.

UWIN (a commercial alternative to cygwin) has 
something similar.  See
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

They use /reg, but I agree that /dev/registry or
/proc/registry would be better.

Regards,

Jon Foster
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