Re: Bug: /registry file system doesn't return len of default value of keys

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

On Jun 28 20:25, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've run into some weird behavior from the file-utils (grep, file) but I
> believe they may all be caused by the same root problem.
>
> The /prog/registry filesystem doesn't return the length of the 'default'
> value (often a string).
>
>
> Under /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/
> I was grep'ing through   ".txt/@"  which I expected to find
> the string "txtfile", but, I think because it is 0 len, grep thinks it is 
> a binary file (which I have my grep set to ignore).
>
>
> Known bug?  Is it in the queue to be fixed someday? :-)

Works in Cygwin 1.7


Corinna

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