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Much to my dismay and embarrassment, the serious bug fix in version 0.03
introduced a serious bug of it's own. You'll be pleased to hear that I've
added a test suite (currently only one file) to the distribution, so this
sort of thing should happen less in the future.
Again, I strongly advise all users to upgrade to this version. I've also
removed all the older versions from CPAN, just in case.
This version also does the file locking in XS, thus removing the assumptions
about struct flock's layout. It also does its own mmap()ing in XS, removing
the dependency on Malcom Beattie's Mmap.pm. This means that people don't
need to figure out Malcom's slightly strange distribution name, and it
compiles on 5.6 without any problems (I've tested it on 5.004_05 too).
>From the README:
This module provides a shared cache, using a memory mapped file. Very useful
for mod_perl applications. If routines are provided which interact with the
underlying data, access to the cache is completely transparent, and the module
handles all the details of refreshing cache contents, and updating underlying
data, if necessary.
--
Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I don't know what kinds of evil I've done in the past. I don't even want
to know. I just want that evil to carry on having its good effects"
-- Damian Conway on his use of pack/unpack/vec
