Messages in this thread |  | | From | Tim Jansen <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 22:42:54 +0100 |
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On Sunday 04 November 2001 22:20, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > > I could even live with parsing ASCII, as long as there'd just be type > > > information to go with the values. > > 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. > Having read out 64 bit values, floating point data etc. from the registry, > I'm old enough to know that it is *NOT* what I'm looking for :)
Why? It's not bad only because it is from MS. IMHO the disadvantages of the registry are: - you need special software/syscalls to access it - because of that making backups etc is hard - the organization of the data is horrible
Assuming you could mount it as a regular filesystem and use it for kernel configuration, what else are its disadvantages?
bye...
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