From: Martin Ankerl Date: 2005-02-21T20:00:37+09:00 Subject: Re: Require when Executed file is required by another file. > In general, it is very hard and time consuming to determine that > different paths refer to the same file, so require does not even try to > pretend that it is robust. Why not calculate a hash of the file and use this in the check. This would make the whole thing independent from the actual path, and allows to re-require a file if its content changes. martinus