Purging cached std.fileread() contents

[Guillaume Quintard]

Piling on here, there's also one in rust!
https://github.com/gquintard/vmod_fileserver

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 19:44 Geoff Simmons <geoff at uplex.de> wrote:

> On 6/15/23 18:57, Justin Lloyd wrote:
> >
> > The documentation for std.fileread() says it is cached indefinitely, so
> > how do I get Varnish to re-read the file when it gets updated without
> > having to restart Varnish?
>
> "Cached indefinitely" means just what it says. The VMOD saves the file
> contents in memory on the first invocation of std.fileread(), and never
> reads the file again.
>
> We have a VMOD that reads file contents and then monitors the file for
> changes. The new contents are used after the change:
>
> https://code.uplex.de/uplex-varnish/libvmod-file
>
>
> Best,
> Geoff
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