On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 10:25:06 +0200, you wrote: >On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:55:50 -0500 >Nicolas Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not necessarily. A registry, for example, would allow us to solve >> that problem. > >Would this be something like the windows registry? I sure hope not.
As Nicolas said, it can be a plain text file. /etc/passwd is sometimes called a registry or database. BTW, the SMF registry is an SQLite database. Quite open. Advantages: standaradized language to access it, high performance because keyvalues can be indexed. -- ( Kees Nuyt ) c[_] _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
