Deletes Are Driving Me Crazy

[Matthew Glubb]

Hi Sean,

Thanks a lot for the reply. Do you have a version of the code with  
those changes? My C is non-existent at best :/

Regards,

Matt

On 15 Jan 2006, at 04:33, Sean Chittenden wrote:

>>> I simply wish to be able to delete a key that has a zero expiry
>>> period and then immediately be able to add a key of the same name.
>>> The reason that I cannot use set is because if it already exists in
>>> the cache I do not want to replace the value.
>>>
>>
>> I have a somewhat similar requirement, but I'm curious about this  
>> specific
>> approach.  It sounds as if an object may go into the cache with a  
>> given key,
>> but in some scenarios if that key is already in use, that object  
>> would use a
>> different key in the cache.  Is that accurate?
>
> The best solution for this is to replace the delete time counter  
> with a
> timeval struct and then use gettimeofday(2) instead of time(3).  
> Using a time_t
> gives you whole second resolution, but gettimeofday(2) gives you  
> microsecond
> resolution on your delete's, but it works well enough for the times  
> when I've
> had this problem in the past.  *shrug*  YMMV  -sc
>
> -- 
> Sean Chittenden



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