> > Having your database seems like a reasonable idea, but it needs to be plain > > text which might be slow; a db file would be faster but I want to be able to > > change it in a text editor. > > As a compromise it could use the same system than the sendmail aliases: > The user make changes in a plain text file (/etc/aliases), but the > application 'compiles' this file as a db database (/etc/aliases.db)?
databases ? hey, we are talking about maybe 100 variables in 5 files, that's 20 variables per file. and the parsing is a) not complex and b) only done during bootup / when starting scripts. the program will be written in c, so it will be fast enough. a database will not help, only make everything huge and slow. regards, andreas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
