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Elektra 0.11.0
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A file backend refers to exactly one file per namespace. This file can be returned using kdb file
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In some situations a single mountpoint refers to more than one file per namespace:
system
namespace may contain several files (XDG_CONFIG_DIRS).Multiple File Backends are not supported in the case of writing files.
Multiple sources in one namespace only work, if the fallback KeySet is part of the mountpoint config. That way any change to the fallback KeySet would essentially make the whole thing a different mountpoint and thereby invalidate all guarantees.
Writeable multiple file backends would:
See Rationale.