gl.Texture no cache

[gajop]

Is there any way to disable gl.Texture caching?
My use case is:

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-- user loads texture
gl.Texture(path)
gl.RenderToTexture(fboTex, function() ... end)
gl.Texture(false)

-- user saves texture
os.remove(path) -- remove old texture
gl.RenderToTexture(fboTex, gl.SaveImage, 0, 0, texSize, texSize, path)

-- user loads texture again
gl.Texture(path)
gl.RenderToTexture(fboTex, function() ... end)
gl.Texture(false)

Problem happens when I load a texture again from the same path even though the texture has changed in the meanwhile. It will still give me the cached texture instead of the new texture. Is there any option to disable the caching and enforce that it loads it from the disk?
Thanks.

[gajop]

To offer one (ugly) solution myself is:
gl.Texture(":"..os.clock()..":" .. path)

[jK]

use gl.DeleteTexture

[gajop]

OK, so are supposed to gl.DeleteTexture those that we haven't gl.CreateTexture-d or is it just to enforce no caching?
Also, what does gl.DeleteTextureFBO do? delete the FBO of a texture fbo=true texture or delete the texture+fbo of a fbo=true texture?

[jK]

with gl.DeleteTexture you can delete named textures (that's the name of them), too.

[gajop]

Right, I got that now.
1. The next question is whether this (deleting named textures) is something we should do to prevent memory leaks?
From what I understand Lua textures (gl.CreateTexture) are one of the rare few things that we need to explicitly delete in Lua.
And:
2.

Also, what does gl.DeleteTextureFBO do? delete the FBO of a texture fbo=true texture or delete the texture+fbo of a fbo=true texture?

[jK]

@1: when you load a huge loadscreen texture in LuaIntro and later never need it again, then yes you should delete it in :Shutdown()

@2: you got the source

[gajop]

@1: when you load a huge loadscreen texture in LuaIntro and later never need it again, then yes you should delete it in :Shutdown()

I understand that I should sometimes delete it, but the question was really whether named textures will be deleted automatically after some time or not. That is, will gl.Texture(path) remain in memory forever until gl.DeleteTexture(path) or would they be removed by Spring?

@2: you got the source

PS: Another question: Is there a way to monitor widget/gadget memory usage, including the use of textures which doesn't fall in the 800~ish MBs allocated to Lua?