Re: [bug-gawk] External shell command REG doesn't change anything

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 20:39:46 +0200
> From: Denis Shirokov <address@hidden>
> 
> I found some problem with using REG shell command from GAWK script.
> This command performs rw operations with windows registry. And this do
> not work when i trying to execute this command from GAWK-script.
> Actually this is not GAWK issue but maybe you can advice me something?
> This is under Windows 2008R2x64 and Windows 7x64:
> 
> >gawk --version
> GNU Awk 4.0.1
> Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2012 Free Software Foundation.
> 
> >type r.gwk
> BEGIN{
> c="REG ADD \"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\eGAWK\" /v \"abc\" /t
> REG_SZ /d \"123\" /f"
> 
>         c| getline d; close(c)
>         print "OUTPUT:"
>         print d }
> 
> >gawk -f r.gwk
> OUTPUT:
> The operation completed successfully.
> 
> and this isn't change something in registry but if i try it direct
> from command line or from batch file - it's work ok.

Could be the Windows 7 Registry virtualization in action, since
gawk.exe is probably a 32-bit executable, right?  See

  
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa965884%28v=vs.85%29.aspx