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Re: regtool gives different results than reg
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:33:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: regtool gives different results than reg
- References: <Pine.OSF.4.63.1002101650200.1860155@guanine.cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Reply-to: 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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