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Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality
Chris January wrote:
>>Chris & Chris,
>>
>>Cool!
>>
>>Is the registry as reflected in /proc/registry writable?
>>
> I'm torn between writing "no", and "no, not yet".
> The problem with this is that it is inevitable that at some point or other
> someone will post to the cygwin mailing list complaining they typed rm -rf
> /proc/registry/* and now their system is hosed and it's all Red Hat's
> fault...
> Certainly there would have to be some kind of 'safety' mechanism, whereby by
> default /proc/registry was read-only, but somehow it could be made writable,
> perhaps by writing '1' to /proc/registry/.writable or something.
That might work --- but I'd make it auto-reset after every atomic write.
So, you have to say
$ cat '1' > /proc/registry/.writeable
$ <access one single "file" in the registry>
$ cat /proc/registry/.writable
0
--Chuck
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