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In message <[email protected]>, Carlos Abalde writ
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>> So one murky bit here is if your OS's dlopen(3) implementation discovers
>> that the file has changed.  It sounds like it doesn't, and just reuses
>> the old already loaded copy :-(
>> 
>> The surefire way to fix that is to append a version number to the
>> vmod filename, but it's kind of ugly...
>
>Hi,
>
>I've been checking the sources of Varnish and doing some more testing, 
>and, as you suggest, this definitely seems related to dlopen(3) / 
>dlclose(3) and how they are used when reloading Varnish. 

I have changed the vmod management code in -trunk to stat the compiled
vmod and check the st_dev/st_ino fields against the previously opened
vmods and to use fdlopen(3) to bypass the dlopen(3) name check.

Hope this helps.


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