Symlinks not updated until php5-fpm isn't killed and restarted

Question

My current deploy logic (using laravel envoy) creates a symlink between the "current" folder and the latest release folder. The problem is that the symlink is not immediately updated. In fact I need to kill and restart php5-fpm to avoid this problem using:

sudo pkill php5-fpm
sudo service php5-fpm restart

Note: using only sudo service php5-fpm restart doesn't work. Any thoughts on how to avoid this problem and how to fix it?

The symbolic link is created using following command:

ln -s release current

As far as I know this overwrites the symlink if one should already exist.

Here is the output of php -i

phpinfo()
PHP Version => 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.9

System => Linux abc.stratoserver.net 3.13.0-042stab092.3 #1 SMP Sun Jul 20 13:27:24 MSK 2014 x86_64
Build Date => Apr 17 2015 11:43:18
Server API => Command Line Interface
Virtual Directory Support => disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc/php5/cli
Loaded Configuration File => /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files => /etc/php5/cli/conf.d
Additional .ini files parsed => /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/05-opcache.ini,
/etc/php5/cli/conf.d/10-pdo.ini,
/etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-curl.ini,
/etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-gd.ini,
/etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-json.ini,
/etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini,
/etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-mysql.ini,
/etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini,
/etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini,
/etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-readline.ini,
/etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-ssh2.ini

PHP API => 20121113
PHP Extension => 20121212
Zend Extension => 220121212
Zend Extension Build => API220121212,NTS
PHP Extension Build => API20121212,NTS
Debug Build => no
Thread Safety => disabled
Zend Signal Handling => disabled
Zend Memory Manager => enabled
Zend Multibyte Support => provided by mbstring
IPv6 Support => enabled
DTrace Support => enabled

Registered PHP Streams => https, ftps, compress.zlib, compress.bzip2, php, file, glob, data, http, ftp, phar, zip, ssh2.shell, ssh2.exec, ssh2.tunnel, ssh2.scp, ssh2.sftp
Registered Stream Socket Transports => tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, tls
Registered Stream Filters => zlib.*, bzip2.*, convert.iconv.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, dechunk, mcrypt.*, mdecrypt.*

This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.3, Copyright (c) 1999-2014, by Zend Technologies


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Phar based on pear/PHP_Archive, original concept by Davey Shafik.
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Module Name
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sysvshm

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PATH => /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
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LESSOPEN => | /usr/bin/lesspipe %s
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PHP Variables

Variable => Value
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Answer 1

As per your php -i info I think your servers have opcache enabled on the fpm side, not though command line. This is why it shows opcode.enabled

You can try to force a cache clearing of opcode just after your symlinks are recreated. You need to run this on a script that will run under the same php-fpm process. i.e. create a page that does just a cache reset

http://php.net/manual/en/function.opcache-reset.php

And call the page using wget/curl/browser, dont just run the php file from the command line as the command line will not be running on the same process pool where the cache has been created into.

Also if you are interested in a more flexible tool to clear cache use https://github.com/gordalina/cachetool

Pls let me know if it fixes your problems