[mod_python] Sending a message to Apache children

Seth Ladd wrote:

> Do you check the timestamp on the template from the filesystem?  That 
> might be better than to just throw away the template every 5 minutes.  I 
> can assume that most templates will be static for longer than 5 minutes.

Actually we do - every 5 minutes we check the timestamp to see if an 
update has been made. We're trying to avoid making the call to the 
filesystem to check the timestamp on every request.

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Simon Willison
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