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Re: [leafnode-list] lockfiles revisited



Joerg Dietrich <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:07:23PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > > > You must discard all cached information if you change it.
> > > You always must do so.
> > So there's the place where locking affects caching of overview
> > information, wasn't that what you asked? :-)
> 
> No, locking has nothing to do with it. You *always* have to
> discard cached information if it is changed.

But locking is one way to work around this: you lock changes out as long
as you work with the cache. It's the other way around, admittedly.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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