[augeas-devel] Windows registry files?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:31:04PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:25:24PM +0200, David Lutterkort wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 14:54 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > Transfering this discussion from #augeas, does Augeas support Windows
> > > Registry files?
> > 
> > Almost ;) Attached are a lens and corresponding test that works for your
> > user.reg and system.reg. The software.reg fails for at least a couple of
> > reasons:
> 
> >       * sofwtare.reg contains braindead entries like ""foo bar"
> >         baz" (i.e., w/o quoting the inner double quotes in any way)
> 
> That might just be a bug in the 'regex' tool Rich used to generate
> the software.reg file from the binary format.

Yeah, the regex program is known to be highly buggy.

Rich.

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