Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:30:42 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND Message-ID: <3A969E42.BA56550@softweyr.com> References: <200102200122.SAA04466@usr05.primenet.com> <ybupugd2u4n.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> <3A934507.A0645CF3@softweyr.com> <20010223073526.F19285@hand.dotat.at>
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Tony Finch wrote:
>
> Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> wrote:
> >
> >We in the unix world have a well-founded aversion to storing configuration
> >information in binary data stores that can't be accessed via ed(1) when
> >the system is in single-user mode. If we wanted to stuff all the system
> >configuration into such a black hole, we could've done it with DBM data-
> >bases more than a decade ago, quite easily.
>
> You mean like spwd.db?
Yes, exactly. Ask 10 unix programmers whether that was a good idea or not,
and get 10 different answers, few of them positive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it
makes uid and gid lookups faster...
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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