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SELinux Mailing ListRe: Desktop apps interoperability
From: Dale Amon <amon_at_vnl.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:33:21 +0100
I will run screaming if someone imports the registry concept into Unix. You'll need full AI to get it right. I managed a moderate size university network of NeXT's. The admin interface seems nice at first... but it sucks you in and then you find the problems with upgrades of software; the problem that if you pulled the plug on UFS open files got corrupted... and guess what? The netinfo files were almost always open! Keep it ASCII; keep it in seperate files. By all means try to get application and daemon writers to standardize on their parsing. Not that you ever will. And has to My Documents? Yech. Every user has their own private idea of what setups should exist. Users are users and have their own little worlds; Root is Root and never the twain shall meet. Except perhaps with proper selinux controls... Now I do wish there were a dotfile directory in each home directory and everyone put the dotfiles in it when they are created... but if wishes were fishes I'd have a life time supply of fish'n'chips. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Dale Amon amon@islandone.org +44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems programming and Admin "Have Laptop, Will Travel" ------------------------------------------------------Received on Tue 29 Mar 2005 - 06:34:30 EST |
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Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009 |