SP - attribute policy file not reloading on changes?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/25/18, 9:44 AM, "users on behalf of John Horne" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:

> The shibd log file shows no indication that the policy file has been reloaded.
> However, my first question should perhaps be how often does shibd check for a
> change of the file? Other than that, any ideas why the file would not be
> reloaded?

The algorithm for a local file is just to check the modified time every time the file is locked, although that's something that will be moved to a background thread in a future version since it's causing race conditions in Apache. Today it's quite predictable and it definitely works so the facts in evidence are off somewhere.

-- Scott