From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Feb 23 9:20:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5288C37B491 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:20:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14WM3G-0000po-00; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:30:42 -0700 Message-ID: <3A969E42.BA56550@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:30:42 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Finch Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND References: <200102200122.SAA04466@usr05.primenet.com> <3A934507.A0645CF3@softweyr.com> <20010223073526.F19285@hand.dotat.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Finch wrote: > > Wes Peters 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message