Re: DLL naming conventions

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 10:31 AM 9/5/2000, Egor Duda wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Tuesday, 05 September, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>EB> --- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Of course, if we ever write our "registry as a file system" module for
> >> cygwin, you could have a tar file which extracted executables to /bin
> >> and registry information to /registry/LocalMachine/Software/...
> >> 
>
>EB> Hey, I like this.  So then, `ls /registry/LocalMachine/Software' should then
>EB> list the registry.  Cool, just cool.
>
>not  so  cool  as  you  can think. i've implemented such "plugin" to
>cygwin  somewhere  around 1998, and ls /registry/LocalMachine/Software
>worked ok. and
>
>cat "/registry/CurrentUser/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v2/cygdrive prefix"
>
>worked  ok  too. but when i dug into this, i couldn't find good mapping
>from  registry  semantics  to  unix-stype  file  system semantics. for
>example,  registry values can be of several different types -- string,
>multistring,  binary,  dword, etc. what should this be looking like in
>fs tree?
>
>putting  /registry/.../ into tar.gz should work, though, if only we'll
>use string type values only.
>
>Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



Hm, just curious but did you look at what UWIN?  According to the 
documentation, they have such a file system.





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