Re: Implementing Batch Requests in GConf

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 4/24/07, Ryan Cumming <ryan cumming neverbluemedia com> wrote:
> Okay, I've hacked together a very rough patch that will do negative
>  caching on GConf entries. This means if it doesn't find a key in cache
>  that should've been covered by a previous add_dir, it will consider that
>  authoritative and not do a roundtrip to the server. This drastically
>  reduces the total number of roundtrips during Gnome login.
>
>  This is definitely not intended for inclusion, I'm just looking for
>  feedback.

If the user later adds a key, will the client-side cache automatically
get updated ?
Or will this negative caching hide the newly added value ?

Matthias