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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/30/16 5:27 PM, Cantor, Scott
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<pre wrap="">On 3/30/16, 5:19 PM, "dev on behalf of Brent Putman" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dev-bounces@shibboleth.netonbehalfofputmanb@georgetown.edu"><dev-bounces@shibboleth.net on behalf of putmanb@georgetown.edu></a> wrote:
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I guess I didn't think it through, but you can see the oddness: if you're running happily for a week, and then things fail, the backup copy can't be any newer than the version you're running with.</pre>
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Yes, I think I see that now. By definition the bytes on disk are
(usually) the same as the processed metadata you have cached. Could
be older if there was an error writing the file, but not newer.
(Assuming someone doesn't do something odd like manually update the
backing file out-of-process. I vaguely recall someone mentioning
doing something like that long ago. But we can just say "not
supported".)<br>
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<pre wrap=""> I guess I didn't realize it just loaded it anyway, but the SP might also, I'd have to check the code. You can see that it's kind of wasted effort.</pre>
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Agreed, it does seem inefficient. <br>
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<pre wrap=""> It may be doing that for consistency, because as you said, the code is horrendous in both.</pre>
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I was just looking at it. To special-case it just for *startup*
might be hard per se, but I think that's not really what you
technically want. Probably want to only read the backing file if
there is no cached metadata in the resolver. I think that's a purer
statement of the requirement. And that is I think easier (although
I think I just spotted a minor non-operational bug that would need
to be fixed first). I'll open an issue to look at further.<br>
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