namecache redesign

[Andrew Bartlett]

tridge at samba.org wrote:
> 
> Tim,
> 
> > How about keeping basically the same API in namecache.c (i.e expiry
> > based on time_t) but with an appropriate key prefix as you suggest?
> 
> What I'd like to see is a lib/gencache.c module that provides a string
> based cache. So all cache entries would have string keys and string
> values.
> 
> key: NBT/name#1c
> value: 192.168.2.10 192.168.3.21

Perhaps this (the value) should be prefixed with the current unix time,
in seconds since 1970?  That should get us nice cache expiration
properties.

Andrew,
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