Re: master daea9b3 1/2: Read mailcaps again only when necessary

[Stefan Monnier]

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2021-11-01 18:01:56] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> If two packages read&parse the same file and both rely on this function
>> to decide when to reparse, the second package can get a nil value
>> (because the first has caused the mtime to be reset in the hash table)
>> even though the file has changed since it last parsed it.
> I think that's up to the higher level to decide whether it's a problem
> or not, like with other memoizing functions.

What higher level?  I'm talking about two separate packages that don't
know each other, so there's no higher level magic that will save us.


        Stefan