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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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.

(And relatedly, this function shouldn't use file-truename or anything on
the filename -- it's a string used as the key.)

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