Re: config system thoughts

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>]

>  - Makes caching possible; gnome-config currently is completely
>    broken because it caches tons of data, but has no 
>    mechanism to notice when things change underneat it.

It does know this.  

It does stat the file to check if it has changed, and if so reloads.

It is very race prone, so I would not depend on this at all.

And yes, it is ugly.

Miguel.