On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 17:14 +0100, Thomas Anders wrote:
> Sounds fine. Are there any drawbacks (=change in behaviour
> other than bug fixing) of this approach?

I don't think so - assuming everything works correctly,
of course!    The most likely area would be caching.

The 'run_exec_command' routine will invoke the specified
command every time it's called.  A brief look at the
'get_exec_output' routine seems to indicate that it
caches the most recent results.

But that's a single shared cache, so relying on this
behaviour isn't really very robust.  A better approach
would be to cache each entry independently (which is
what I've done with the new "extend" mechanism).
   But that's definitely something for a later date.
As far as 5.3 is concerned, I'd just be looking at
making 'get_exec_output' invoke 'run_exec_command',
and keep the same cache behaviour.   (Which then also
raises the question of whether "pass" output should be
cached or not).

Dave


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