Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> [01/06/01 10:39]:
> > I'd argue for rate limiting as the application only gets back new data,
> > never a cached value n times in a row.
>
> Which is worse. I cat the proc file a few times and your HA app is unlucky. It
> now gets *NO* data for five minutes. If we cache the values it gets approximate
> data
>
Is it not possible to have several readers waiting for the same data
and return it to all of them when the timer expires?
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