LinuxRegistry in Freedesktop & KDE

[Gary L Greene Jr]

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On Friday 16 April 2004 06:43 pm, Sébastien Laoût wrote:
> Hello.
>
> And what about Kiosk features in this register ?
> And locking from the root, predefined keys for all users, etc... ?
> I'm not for the register : don't want to lost interesting features...
> Don't know if KConfig or KXMLConf have other features that could to not
> be implemented in Linux register.
>
> But I'm not against also. Would be good to not have one file per key (no
> need, isn't it ?) but, as KDE does it now, one file per application, or
> group.
> So performances lost willn't be too dramastical.
> (but, as said, we must make tests).
>
> My two cents...

A friend from school and I detailed a registry-like system that could be used 
by all apps in a POSIX system with integrity checking and all. The main issue 
was scaling it to larger environments. The LinuxRegistry project, while in 
the same spirit of aiming to clean up the configuration mess between various 
apps, is poorly though through from the POV of a person that thought up a 
full registry scheme. The aspect of having one key per file is ridiculis. To 
do so is to invite eating up the entire inode allocation on a smaller 
filesystem.

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