Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthias Urlichs" <> | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:33:39 +0200 | Subject | Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman, and loic |
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Hi,
Bill Huey: > > In the specific case of /etc/services, which should be ordered but only > [snip] > > service name? The number? Any one of the aliases? IMHO the file doesn't > > really fit the directory lookup paradigm at all. So why try and force it > > into one? > > > Uh, the idea of having stuff in /etc work like the old flaky NeXTStep > Mach/Unix conjures up past nightmares of constant flakiness of using that > particular feature. > > Uhg, Text files are good, monkey man scratch... (scratch scratch) > Ahem.
I didn't imply that text files are good, only that having a directory which contains the /etc/services entries isn't exactly a cool idea either (neither is a text file, BTW).
It's really a database. So use one -- glibc supports DB or NIS or whatever else you want to implement.
I don't think the semantics for correctly updating /etc/services should be in the kernel. Where does it stop? Next you'll want /etc/smb.conf, or /etc/XF86Config. Surprise, I want it too, but not that way please.
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