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Re: Server Mode question
- To: crossfire (at) ifi.uio.no
- Subject: Re: Server Mode question
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:13:26 +0100
- In-Reply-To: <>; from "Eric A. Anderson" at Jan 25, 93 11:57 pm
Eric writes:
> Actually, my idea was to watch the maps for changes. Once every x
> amount of time, so a sum or an md5 on all of the maps. Then if a
> map's checksum remains unchanged for a couple of hours then I was
> going to delete the /tmp file.
> --
> Would this work?
> Does anyone want to do that? (I'm getting cramped by classes at this
> point, and other things I want to work on.)
Well, I've just (the last 30 minutes) added a scheme which deletes
the tmp-files which haven't been used for a (configurable) while.
I can see the pros of the checksum method, but I believe the timeout
scheme is good enough in most cases, and better in some.
-Frank.