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Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Cc: Chris January <chris at atomice dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 00:42:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality
- References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5F9D@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
Robert Collins wrote:
> Two things: if /proc/registry isn't writable, cating 1 to
> /proc/registry/.writeable won't work - without special case code. I'd
> suggest /proc/sysopts/fs/registry/writeable.
>
> Two, why not have two options:
> writeable
> nextwrite
>
> one is persistent (until all cygwin processes end). The other is for a
> single transaction.
Because I don't want to make it easy. Besides, if you really want
"persistence", here's how to shoot yourself in the foot (or head):
-------
#!/bin/sh
echo '1' > /proc/sysopts/fs/registry/writeable
$*
-------
--Chuck
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