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I wrote some tips to the mail list a few days back; copied here for reference:

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> Particularly, the singleton SSL_CTX* here:
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> https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/master/src/XrdHttp/XrdHttpProtocol.cc#L1659
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> holds a pointer to a X509_STORE object.  This object loads the CRLs at initialization but never reloads them.  The SSL_CTX* is passed to libvomsapi through the callback registered by libXrdHTTPVOMS; in a finite amount of time, the CRLs expire.
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> An example of loading a new X509_STORE is here:
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> https://github.com/opensciencegrid/xrootd-lcmaps/blob/master/src/GlobusSupport.cc#L295
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> Unfortunately, to be able to know when you can safely delete the old object, you either need a stop-the-world global mutex wrapping the object or you can hash a few across threads as in here:
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> https://github.com/opensciencegrid/xrootd-lcmaps/blob/master/src/GlobusSupport.cc#L354
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> In that example, we only lock across 1/63 of the threads when we are reloading.

Brian

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