Re: Info disaster?

BTW, Hrvoje, I can confirm your experience with repeated rebuildings of the dir file. Hrvoje> sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber Hrvoje> [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: 1) I meant: cache between two Hrvoje> invocations of XEmacs. Hrvoje> Except that the dir files are not writable for the user. Hrvoje> Do you all people run as root or something? :-) No. Furthermore, under Linux I don't trust the sysadmin (in practice, Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, et al, plus a multitude of free-lance package-releasers) to keep the dir files accurate or even consistent. Nor do dir files have certain information (time-stamps and/or checksums) that would be useful in keeping a true cache consistent, and nowhere to put it. Hrvoje> Do I have a choice? No, I don't see one. Furthermore, Michael, I don't understand you of all people making this objection. I thought you advocated automatic building of lists of files and things whenever possible, precisely because you think XEmacs can get it as right as anybody does? If so, shouldn't the only cache we trust be one we make ourselves? And hell, if we have to make our own cache, maybe we can add an API to allow programmers to help the user to see the things they look at most often first? And a UI for the user to set those things themselves, and to decide when to refresh the cache? -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 /* What's the big deal about the millennium? ............................. .... There are still 360 shopping days left until the millennial epoch! */