Ian Kent wrote:
>
> The above works that way without the update.
>
> I'm not sure that a periodic update really gets us much. Since in most
> sites maps change infrequently.
>
> On the other hand at work we run a cron every night on all our machines to
> trigger an update of the maps.
>
> So I'm on the fence here?
>
Oh yes, a lot of map types support querying "has a change occurred"
(usually in the form of a generation number, or in the case of a file
map, the mtime.) This absolutely should be taken advantage of.
(For a program map, this complicates the protocol somewhat. I don't
know necessarily of the best way to deal with that. It needs some
thinking :)
-hpa
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