> > Performance. Peter E found that considerable startup time was being
> > wasted reading the file.
>
> But can't we read it only when needed ?
>
> Just stat'ing it should be much cheaper than reading it each time.
We thought about that but it seems we could be reading partial writes to
the file. This way the administrator controls when the changes become
effective.
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