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Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined & RFE, only use "/" in reg values, not names..?]


On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>The only mechanism I can think of that is adversely affected by this
>convention is /proc/registry, because of its attempt to map the
>registry onto a filesystem.  Because the registry doesn't have the same
>set of invalid characters in names as the underlying filesystem, this
>mapping sometimes fails, as in the case of mounts values.  It might be
>possible to change the /proc/registry implementation to translate "/"s
>in key and value names to valid character combinations (e.g., URL
>encoding).  PTC.

I've toyed with the idea of making /proc/registry a managed mount but
since managed mounts don't allow '/' in a filename either, that would
require some additional work on the managed stuff.

cgf

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