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

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:17:18 GMT

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:44:01 GMT, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@yin.interaccess.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>

Well, it would be nice to know just what the hell "the registry" and INI were....

I didn't use Windoze long enough to get that deep into the morass they call
an operating system.

But I have heard many very knowledgable people say that "the registry" was
a bad hack and the worst thing about NTs.

AC

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