Re: troubles with caps

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:>       - Cache results locally so it does not have to perform an IPC for
:> 	every request (CAPS has or will have a mechanism whereby the
:> 	service will be able to notify clients of changes to have clients
:> 	invalidate their caches).
:
:I would skip that part for the moment. This one should be evaluated wether
:it is worth the effort. E.g. for uid <=> name mappings most portable apps
:already cache them internally.
:..
:Joerg


    I think it's fairly important for libc to do some caching locally.
    While it is true that programs like ls use auxillary caching procedures
    such as user_from_uid(), I do not consider this desireable because
    such auxillary caching mechanisms are not tied into the invalidation
    mechanism that CAPS has (and in the future the invalidation mechanism
    may be up-call based).  Tight integration is needed for the caching
    to work properly.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>