re: preference domains

[John Davidorff Pell]

On 21 Aug 2004, at 08:59, discuss-gnustep-request@gnu.org wrote:
> In mac os x to which directories or list of directories or files do 
> these tuples correspond?
>
> current user : current application : current host
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/*.MAC_ADDRESS.plist
> current user : current application : any host
~/Library/Preferences/
> current user : any application       : current host
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.GlobalPreferences.MAC_ADDRESS.plist
> current user : any application       : any host
~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
> any user       : current application : current host
/Library/Preferences/ByHost/*.MAC_ADDRESS.plist
> any user       : current application : any host
/Library/Preferences/
> any user       : any application       : current host
/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
> any user       : any application       : any host
/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.MAC_ADDRESS.plist

> In my implementation the search list is roughly 
> userdomain/Library/Preferences, Local/Library/Preferences, 
> Network/Library/Preferences, /System/Library/Preferences. It is in C 
> for now and almost all of my projects are already using it and im 
> rewriting it in objective-c. Automation and config is very easy.



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