Github user zizhong commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/301#issuecomment-157628406 Thanks @jpeach for the helpful comments. For the protocol you suggested, 1. How to clean up the old watched children files correctly? 2. In a parent with all children style, the whole information can be packed in one message instead of O(children) messages, which is more efficient on both time and space. The tree structure for this problem is too general. A parent with all children (a.k.a. ConfigFileGroup) is all that is need. Those groups are few foreseeably(ssl_multicerts.conf, remap.conf) and all those can be treated as configFileGroups(a special tree whose depth is always 2) instead of a general tree. After considering about the pros and cons about applying a tree structure in this issue, I prefer ConfigFileGroup.
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