The linked blog has created an new way to access the registry that happens to also run on Linux. The larger project (http://libguestfs.org) aims to be able to make changes to virtual disks that comprise virtual machines without having to actually turn them which is pretty neat if the same registry tweak needs to be applied across a bunch of machines. But that explains why their new registry access api needs to be compatible with the various windows OSes.
Yeah, I saw that. My point is that the registry wasn't designed for that.
I'll be the same as complaining that the format of the /etc files is not well document, is not standard across different flavors of UNIX and everyone sticks whatever they want there.
It isn't really the same. Anyone that needs access to something in /etc can get what they're looking for without having the first pierce a difficult binary format. Deciphering what they get back is another issue, but typically it's just a text file, so you can generally figure out how to parse it if you need to.
