Re: [exim-dev] patch for named acl variables

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Author: Nico Erfurth
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To: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] patch for named acl variables
Jakob Hirsch wrote:

> But now there's a different problem: I rewrote the code to use the btree
> functions. Easy to handle while they are in memory, but what to do when
> they go to disk? Dumping is easy, but when reading in, tree_insertnode
> has to be called for every variable, which is expensive with all its
> rebalancing etc. As far as I can see, there are three possible solutions:

.......
> 2. Write information about the tree into the spool file (like the
> existing tree_write does). This an incompatible change, once again,
> but it's easy to write a small script to rewrite the spool files into
> the old format, should somebody have a need for that.


As the format will be changing anyway, I don't see a problem here.

Nico