From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68649BBAF for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:04:56 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At0FAMMEhktQRFuwSWdsb2JhbACbFgsBARMWPbtphHUE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,539,1262559600"; d="scan'208";a="53603964" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Feb 2010 14:04:56 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NkdOg-0007N4-6P for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:04:54 +0000 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:04:54 +0000 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: OCaml bindings to hivex (Windows Registry hive library) Message-ID: <20100225130454.GA28253@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 bindings:01 ocaml:01 bindings:01 lib:01 git:98 git:98 aad:98 tree:02 binary:02 supported:02 binding:02 languages:03 library:03 library:03 Should anyone be crazy enough to want to examine or modify Windows Registry 'hive' (binary) files directly, they can now do so from OCaml, since we added OCaml bindings to our hivex library: http://libguestfs.org/hivex.3.html http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=commitdiff;h=095c395082d1aad1e8558aa25514ad911e6d193c There are example programs in the second link. We also used OCaml for two other parts of this project: Firstly it is used to generate the language binding boilerplate code for all supported languages. Secondly we used OCaml + bitstring to analyze the undocumented hive files themselves. http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=blob;f=generator/generator.ml;hb=HEAD http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=tree;f=lib/tools;hb=HEAD Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat