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Swapping out config files can have unintended consequences for running service instances. Reg files are functionally equivalent to config files. Instead of `c
by Arainach 4y ago
Swapping out config files can have unintended consequences for running service instances.
Reg files are functionally equivalent to config files. Instead of `cp foo.conf.bak foo.conf`, just `reg import foo.bak.reg`
Windows processes take command-line parameters and environment variables. None of your points are specific to configuration files - or to Linux. There are even third party jail equivalents for Windows that include registry jailing.
- dredmorbius 4y agoHow are you going to point multiple services at multiple different registries at the same time? Because absent full system virtualisation, you cannot. I don't have to copy config.001 to config. I can simply point the process to config.001. There might be many such of those configs. (This can of course become ... too much of a good thing. But that's simply because it's so easy to do and get carried away with.) The remainer are far more difficult or error prone under Registry.