If-Modified-Since

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4D667A04.4070704 at uplex.de>, Geoff Simmons writes:

>In the second case, there's actually no point in having
>obj.conditional_timeout > obj.grace; an object is evicted when grace
>elapses, no matter what. In that case, we should *not* do something we
>were talking about last week:
>
>>   - the cache eviction time for an object (oc->timer_when) becomes
>>     o->ttl + max(o->conditional_timeout, HSH_Grace(o->grace))

I still think we should do it this way.  If people want
	 conditionnal_timeout == grace
they can set them that way.

But having them separate allows us to define additional policies,
where objects can linger for longer in the hope they are reused.


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