[Helidelinux-devel] Linux registry

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

My (old) idea was to create a /data directory and
a dpath command so that we could have:

# dpath system.hostname
# dpath pkg.apache.conf.DocRoot

The dpath would map paths to directory/OGDL files inside
/data. It also could dive into executables, if it finds
one along the path (if a path element corresponds to an
executable, asume it will print OGDL to stdout, and
continue from there).

There are two approaches to get the data:

1) Publish the data that you want to be accesible thru
    dpath in /data (by means of a symlink for example).
    Example: system.conf -> /data/system/conf/

2) Filter some paths to different system locations, as
    Example: users.nobody -> /home/nobody/data/
    Example 2: user.mail.conf -> $HOME/data/mail/conf

The second approach only needs a series of rules in dpath
while the second needs that the package manager takes care
of placing the appropiate symlinks into the /data space.

Regarding security, I guess we should left that to the
file system (which after all probably has ACL as an option).

Rolf.