On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:04:10PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:26:50 +0100,
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> escribi?:
>
> > > Now I certainly wouldn't advocate a Windows-style registry,
> > > because I think it's full of obvious problems.
> >
> > such as? :)
>
>
> The ugly implementation (inside the kernel and as a big file instead of doing it as a
the nt 3.51 implementation got it right: userspace service (MSRPC
service) with LPC (this is NT, based on Mach, so they have LPC which is
message-passing - joy) communicating from userspace to kernelspace
where necessary.
nooo, it not okay to have registry in kernel. _access_ to it (via
ioctl's) yes. _in_ kernel, friggin'ell'no.
regarding the other points: yes, there's a per-user hive key, which is
"overlaid" onto parts of the sub-tree.
and yes, the previous poster is absolutely right: the benefits cannot
be felt unless evvverrryyy service under the sun is also using it.
... but heck - we do configuration of pretty much every major service
under the sun out of ldap, don't we?
and openldap itself just got the ability to read its own
config out of its own database, right?
it's not _that_ far off, not _that_ unachievable, s/ldap/registry.
there's just a few core services missing - initscripts is a good
example - which nobody's yet had the nerve to tackle (afaik) and dump
into LDAP.
in that example, mostly because there's not much point unless
you're also going to do something decent like put in proper
dependencies (see depinit).
anyway. how on _earth_ did we get here, and please could
someone advise me - and everyone else - of a more suitable
location to discuss these matters?
l.
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