From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751356AbVJFVFQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:05:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751360AbVJFVFQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:05:16 -0400 Received: from free.hands.com ([83.142.228.128]:40407 "EHLO free.hands.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751356AbVJFVFO (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:05:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:05:06 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Michael Concannon Cc: Chase Venters , Marc Perkel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-ID: <20051006210506.GY10538@lkcl.net> References: <20051002204703.GG6290@lkcl.net> <200510041840.55820.chase.venters@clientec.com> <20051005102650.GO10538@lkcl.net> <200510060005.09121.chase.venters@clientec.com> <43453E7F.5030801@concannon.net> <20051006192857.GV10538@lkcl.net> <4345855B.3@concannon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4345855B.3@concannon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-hands-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lkcl@lkcl.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:13:15PM -0400, Michael Concannon wrote: > 1. It _is_ a file: registry.dat > 2. It is a binary file at that... so don't make the implementation a file. or make the contents _of_ the file available via a file system interface. quoted for a second time in this thread, this link: http://www.bindview.com/Services/RAZOR/Utilities/Unix_Linux/ntreg_readme.cfm todd sabin's linux filesystem device driver, which understands nt registry fileformat. NTREG ----- This is a file system driver for linux, which understands the NT registry file format. With it, you can take registry files from NT, e.g., SAM, SECURITY, etc., and mount them on linux. Currently, it's read-only, though I may add read-write capability in the future. http://www.bindview.com/Resources/RAZOR/Files/ntreg.tar.gz mentioned for a second time in this thread, the fact that reactos has read-write capability into nt hive key (registry) format. l.