id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
1235	open_file_cache issues with symlinks	reezer@…		"It appears that nginx doesn't handle symlinks that get updated, ie. by moving a new symlink on their spot correctly.

To reproduce simply create an aliased directory and put a couple of files in there and create a symlink whose target changes between these files. In my case I had a couple of hundred files and would iterate over them once per minute. Occasionally requests to them would result in older files to be returned. It looks like nginx doesn't notice the change. The reason might be that the target file doesn't change, but where the symlink targets to does.

open_file_cache max=1000 inactive=2h;
open_file_cache_errors    on;
open_file_cache_min_uses  1;
open_file_cache_valid     1h;

Turning it off fixes the issue. Also I run with worker_processes 8. There were no errors logged."	defect	closed	minor		nginx-core	1.10.x	invalid	http open_file_cache		FreeBSD xxx 11.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 24 06:55:27 UTC 2016     root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64	"nginx version: nginx/1.10.3
built with OpenSSL 1.0.2k  26 Jan 2017
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/etc/nginx --with-cc-opt='-I /usr/local/include' --with-ld-opt='-L /usr/local/lib' --conf-path=/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --user=www --group=www --with-file-aio --with-ipv6 --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client_body_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy_temp --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/scgi_temp --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi_temp --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --with-http_addition_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_slice_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_sub_module --with-pcre --with-http_v2_module --with-stream --with-stream_ssl_module --with-threads --with-mail --without-mail_imap_module --without-mail_pop3_module --without-mail_smtp_module --with-mail_ssl_module --with-http_ssl_module --add-module=/wrkdirs/usr/ports/www/nginx/work/ngx_brotli-ada972b"