Re: regtool gives different results than reg

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 10 16:50, Greg Couch wrote:
> My system is a 64-bit Windows 7 system with the latest cygwin installed
> and Corinna's unsupported cyglsa64.dll from 29 Jan 2010.  And for this bug
> I have the 64-bit version of Python 2.6.4 installed (not cygwin's) and I'm
> doing these tests on the console, not ssh (but the same bug appears when
> ssh'd in).
> 
> So in the cygwin shell:
> 
>         $ regtool get /machine/SOFTWARE/Python/PythonCore/2.6/InstallPath
>         Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified.
> 
>         $ regtool list /machine/SOFTWARE/Python/PythonCore/2.6
>         Modules
> 
>         $ reg query
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Python\\PythonCore\\2.6"
> 
>         HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\Modules
> 
> But if I run a cmd.exe shell directly (not from a cygwin shell), I get
> everything I expect:
> 
>         >reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6
> 
>         HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\Help
>         HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\InstallPath
>         HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\Modules
>         HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.6\PythonPath
> 
> Any ideas as to how I could workaround this bug?

Did you try the regtool -w option?
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#regtool


Corinna

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