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Re: [Patch]: mkdir -p and network drives
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre at phumblet dot no-ip dot org>
- To: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake),cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 21:31:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Patch]: mkdir -p and network drives
At 01:27 AM 5/11/2005 +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>> At 11:11 AM 5/10/2005 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> So I restrained mkdir to only act on FH_FS.
>>
>> Ideally mkdir & rmdir should be part of the various handlers, but
>> there is no current payoff in doing so as directories can only be
>> created/deleted on FH_FS
>
>Would it ever be possible (or desirable) to let /proc/registry be writable
as a means of creating registry keys (mkdir) and values (creat)?
Yes IMO, and that day we will need to distribute {mk, rm}dir to the handlers.
There doesn't seem to be much demand for that however, people seem happy with
regtool.
Pierre