Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:13:50 -0500 (EST) |
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=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jak writes: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 04:12:23PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>> You are looking for something called the registry. It's something >> that was introduced with Windows 95. It's basically a filesystem >> with typed files: char, int, string, string array, etc. > > Nope :) > > It does not have "char, int, string, string array, etc." it > has "String, binary and DWORD".
I'm pretty sure that newer implementations have additional types. BTW, we could call the persistent part of our registry "reiserfs4".
> Imagine every field in a file by itself, with well-defined type > information and unit informaiton.
I suppose I could print a warning if the type or unit info isn't what was expected. That's insignificantly useful.
Individual files are nice, until you realize: open, read, close
> Performance is one thing. Not being able to know whether > numbers are i32, u32, u64, or measured in Kilobytes or > carrots is another ting.
I don't see what the code is supposed to do if it was expecting kilobytes and you serve it carrots. Certainly nothing useful can be done when this happens. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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