[ros-dev] Re: registry TODO

[Boaz Harrosh]

Mike Nordell wrote:

>If it seems I come down a bit hard on the proposal, I can only blame
>language barriers. My intention is only to illuminate some of the pitfalls I
>think are inherent in a dynamic load system as the proposed.
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I apologize again. The intended proposal was meant for Wine only. I 
cc'ed ReactOS because there was a Question about ReactOS at the end. I 
wanted to know if there was some codebase I could use. So the proposal 
is not at all relevant to ReactOS Kernel registry! ;)

You did make good points about speed and Security. A few are relevant to 
Wine, and I will take them into consideration. (For Wine).

By the way from tests I made on Windows some of the XML implementations 
(DOM style, load everything to memory) are faster than Registry 
functions. I suspect that is do to hash table size, and User-Kernel land 
switching. but it is in the same time frame.
And... "dynamic load system"s is not a new subject. It is just the same 
as a file system, with a mounting table and all that. Even the very root 
uses a driver stack (Some what hardcoded) and lots of Unix systems know 
how to switch roots mid-flight....If you ask me I'd put all that 
Registry hell directly into the file system. Why do we need a duplicate 
implementation. It is already dynamic, driver driven, secure, cached, 
Journaled, optimized to death...But Microsoft made that mistake in the 
past and we most follow.


Sorry about the miss-understanding
Free Life
Boaz