Rafal Szczesniak wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 03:22:59PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Tim, > > > > > > > How about keeping basically the same API in namecache.c (i.e expiry > > > > based on time_t) but with an appropriate key prefix as you suggest? > > > > > > What I'd like to see is a lib/gencache.c module that provides a string > > > based cache. So all cache entries would have string keys and string > > > values. > > > > > > key: NBT/name#1c > > > value: 192.168.2.10 192.168.3.21 > > > > Perhaps this (the value) should be prefixed with the current unix time, > > in seconds since 1970? That should get us nice cache expiration > > properties. > > Good suggestion, though it's a drop of sour flavour in purely text-oriented > cache... or you thought about converting it to text as well.
I figured just the base-10 number, it's sufficiently easy to parse for computers and sane (if not easy) for humans. Andrew, -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
