Anything like the Windows Registry or INI files for Linux/Unix?

From: Kenny McCormack (gazelle_at_yin.interaccess.com)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:44:01 GMT

Now, before anyone starts flaming me, be aware that this is a serious
inquiry. There is something nice about the registry and/or INI files in
Windows and high level API functions to access them, both in terms of
saving you (presumably, you the C programmer) the pain of opening,
closing, and parsing files, and in terms of standardization (I.e., solve
the problem once and be done with it).

ISTR that in the context of the Unix version of one or more of the popular
browsers (Mozilla and/or Netscape), that someone had done exactly this.
Note that in Windows, there is actually OS support for it; the OS handles
the caching specially. Not sure if that part was ported to Unix.

Anyway, any pointers gratefully accepted.

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