Helge Hafting wrote:
rgheck wrote:
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:
I might be a bit annoying, but let's pretend we don't know the problem
with the filesystem checks. Then, how would you explain to someone that
you're implementing administrative tools, touching many files and
thinking of all different special cases with the risk you forget one,
while you can find out whether a file is loaded just by looping over
all
buffers in the memory and comparing a handful of strings to each other.
As I have said somewhere else, you can probably do very very many
string
comparisons before the user will notice.
Yes, but the problem is that you CAN'T do this just by comparing
strings. In many cases, to be sure, you could tell that the file is
loaded by comparing strings. But you can't be sure it isn't loaded
just by comparing strings. Maybe it's loaded, but under a different
pathname.
I wonder if this loadifneeded stuff is too complicated?
How about getting rid of loadifneeded, and simply load everything
unconditionally? (And disallow closing of needed files as well, only
close the view if the user tries.)
That's already exactly what we do :-)
Abdel.
