On 2008-02-03, Michał Kurowski <mkur@gazeta.pl> wrote:
> Użytkownik "Max Power" <mikehack@washington.edu> napisał w wiadomości
> news:fo4ajp$kfp$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu...
>>
>> Has any form of UNIX (ignoring POSTIX compliant OS's that have an internal
>> structure unrelated to Linix / BSD / Mach / ... like OS2 / etc..) ever
>> had any kind of registry (for the core OS, not the applications; system
>> daemons may be tracked by such a structure -- but not user daemons)?
>
> AIX does have it. It's called ODF.
> The common wisdom is it's the less unixy unix product created.
>
ODM--"Object Data Manager". Yes, to all intents and purposes, it's a
registry. I'm an old AIX jockey from way back, and it's probably my
least favorite part of AIX, although in general I like AIX a lot
(LVM is the single best disk management system I've ever seen, and
it ships with the OS!).


--
Christopher Mattern

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