[indiana-discuss] "no scripting zone" and isaexec(3C) == architectural

[Kees Nuyt]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 10:25:06 +0200, you wrote:

>On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:55:50 -0500
>Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:
>
>> Not necessarily.  A registry, for example, would allow us to solve
>> that problem.
>
>Would this be something like the windows registry? I sure hope not.

As Nicolas said, it can be a plain text file.
/etc/passwd is sometimes called a registry or database.

BTW, the SMF registry is an SQLite database. Quite open.
Advantages: standaradized language to access it, high
performance because keyvalues can be indexed.
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  (  Kees Nuyt
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