2009/2/23 Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > What is this, Windows? Everything is a file. Hey, I have a wild idea! > Store your config in ~/.fooconfig/keyname, the contents being the value > of the key. Wow, now you have hashed key lookups, locking (fcntl), > change notification (inotify), permissions and ACLs... This is the kind of design that makes kernel developers complain when they strace applications and notice how many system calls they take to start up. Also, inotify has kernel limitations that would prevent us from using it on that kind of scale. "Everything is a file" was a cute mantra for the 1970s, but reality is more complex than that. As painful as it is, in general we've been moving more underlying storage in the desktop to mmap()able formats because it involves few system calls, doesn't take lots of file descriptors (not an unlimited resource), and works well in the multi-process architecture that for historical/political and some technical reasons we have. Don't get me wrong - GConf has some very bad design flaws (at least should have used something like Protocol Buffers instead of XML), and I'm not defending the weird dconf licensing. But "let's just use lots of files" is not the answer. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
