[Helidelinux-devel] Re: [Ogdl-core] linux registry

[Rolf V. <rol...@he...>]

Hui Zhou wrote:
> I just spotted this project on freshmeat:
> http://registry.sourceforge.net/
> 
> It tries to wrap all config files into a single API. I am thinking on
> the same plot but using OGDL. After skim throught his document, I
> found that he uses very similar path construction (eg. a.b.c.d) to
> access the keys, which make it just natural to use OGDL. However, he uses
> the directory tree to store the data (one file for each value) and I
> speculate that most senior unix administrators. By adding the ability
> to mixing directories with ogdl files, we can either use a single
> registry file (like MS windows does), or use one file for each
> application (as currently used in li(u)nix but all in the same
> directory), or with any level of directories down to one file per key,
> all through a single OGDL API.

My thought was that a future dpath command would do exactly that.
But the registry project has one advantage and that is security: each
key-value pair has its own. On the other side, my question is: Is
the unix security model good, or should we better think about ACL ?

Rolf.