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

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: 11 Mar 2004 02:11:43 GMT

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, gazelle@yin.interaccess.com (Kenny McCormack) 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.

The "desktop environment" systems (Gnome, KDE, GnuStep) all include
libraries for handling application configuration. 

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