A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk wrote:
I've been wondering why the server needs to be reloaded to read in the users/client files...
Mostly historical reasons, coupled with the issue that's it's a bit of a problem to re-load data structures while they're in use.
of course, moving off to SQL based methods removes the reload requirement but cant the module check the status of the file and if the file has changed, re-read the file itself (eg check the modify stamp of the file?)
No. Do you really want the server to automatically re-load the file when you're in the middle of an editing session? The server *should* cache the last modified time, so it doesn't have to reload files that didn't change. But it should *not* reload files until told to do so. Alan DeKok.