On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Shmulik Regev wrote:

> The prune call should only affect the stale cached entries. Note that the
> prune function is already called in other scenarios through the
> Curl_disconnect function.

Yes, it does sound like the correct thing to do. Haven't had any time to check
or try your patch yet.

> At least in my case I wanted to disabled caching altogether and the call
> should simply clear the cache. Unfortunately when the connections themselves
> are cached, disconnect is not called (obviously) and stale entries stay
> active.

Right. It would be slightly more involved to make that effect go away.

> It just occurred to me that another option (which looks slightly more
> complicated) would be to check whether the entries have timed-out when
> trying to retrieve them from the cache. This lazy pruning might actually
> work better when the cache lifetime is greater than zero.

Yeah, I agree we could do that indeed. Shouldn't be too much work.

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