Re: uncachablefile

"M.T. Roebuck" <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:23:55 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 00:50:53 +0100
Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> wrote:

> > The change I made was to use CACHE_NO instead of CACHE_NO_STORE
> > as it seems the CACHE_NO_STORE still saves the data to memory. But 
> > it's just a guess and I haven't looked at the code.
> 
> No.  CACHE_NO_STORE prevents writing out to disk.  CACHE_NO merely
> forces revalidation.
> 
> There's no way to prevent caching in memory, since Polipo doesn't use
> any I/O buffers -- it reads/writes directly from/to the cache.  So
> without an in-memory cache, there's no place to perform I/O.

An important aspect of polipo that I now understand.
Thanks for the help.




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