[openbeosnetteam] Re: our package

One of the reasons why Unix has these files in /etc directory is that user 
files can be located on NFS volume. Or to be more precise, network stack can be 
started independently of starting user-mode application and even mounting user 
volumes. I am quite realistic about Haiku being long way before be multiuser 
system with user home directories located on some distributed FS. Still, if 
network stack is in kernel, then /beos/system/settings should be used, if it's 
user-mode stack than home/settings should be used with a fallback mechanism. If 
I understand it correctly Waldemar went through this dilema before with his PPP 
driver - it has to be started by user but it should perform as kernel-mode 
driver, hence where to put settings question. 
Besides testing purposes, there is also POSIX compatiblity goal and for that 
Haiku will need to have /etc directory - will it contain actual files or 
symbolic links is a different story.
Had posibility of using attributes for those settings been already discussed ? 
I am not following all discussions here.
'protocols', 'networks', resolve.conf' files are quite small and can easily fit 
into a BMessage,
'services' is not that small but I think it's unnecessary big on Unix, usually 
a very small subset of listed services is used.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:30:23 +0200 CEST
To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeosnetteam] Re: our package

> "Waldemar Kornewald" <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hrrm, we can put it on our TODO list, but I think it is already well-
> > placed at /etc.
> > Which of those files would you like to see in home/config/etc, too?
> 
> For now (for the testing packages), I would like to see all of them 
> somewhere else than /etc. I like Philippe's suggestion - that would 
> solve the issue with only little collateral damage :)
> 
> > We have
> > protocols   - makes no sense to allow overriding it by the user
> > services    - well, I do not think this is necessary
> > resolv.conf    - that one might be useful
> > networks    - should not be needed
> 
> Personally, I would like "protocols" to disappear completely and the 
> rest should go into a settings directory, like: 
> B_USER_SETTINGS_DIRECTORY/network/ (for now B_COMMON_SETTINGS_DIRECTORY 
> should be the better choice).
> 
> Bye,
>    Axel.
> 
> 

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