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Willy Tarreau 6093ba47c0 BUG/MINOR: clock: do not mix wall-clock and monotonic time in uptime calculation
We've had a start date even before the internal monotonic clock existed,
but once the monotonic clock was added, the start date was not updated
to distinguish the wall clock time units and the internal monotonic time
units. The distinction is important because both clocks do not necessarily
progress at the same speed. The very rare occurrences of the wall-clock
date are essentially for human consumption and communication with third
parties (e.g. report the start date in "show info" for monitoring
purposes). However currently this one is also used to measure the distance
to "now" as being the process' uptime. This is actually not correct. It
only works because for now the two dates are initialized at the exact
same instant at boot but could still be wrong if the system's date shows
a big jump backwards during startup for example. In addition the current
situation prevents us from enforcing an abritrary offset at boot to reveal
some heisenbugs.

This patch adds a new "start_time" at boot that is set from "now" and is
used in uptime calculations. "start_date" instead is now set from "date"
and will always reflect the system date for human consumption (e.g. in
"show info"). This way we're now sure that any drift of the internal
clock relative to the system date will not impact the reported uptime.

This could possibly be backported though it's unlikely that anyone has
ever noticed the problem.
2023-02-08 11:06:55 +01:00
.github CI: Reformat matrix.py using black 2023-01-03 16:28:34 +01:00
addons BUG/MINOR: promex: Don't forget to consume the request on error 2023-01-13 09:45:23 +01:00
admin BUILD: halog: fix missing double-quote at end of help line 2022-11-25 11:11:41 +01:00
dev DEV: hpack: fix trash build regression 2023-01-27 10:22:20 +01:00
doc [RELEASE] Released version 2.8-dev3 2023-02-04 10:51:05 +01:00
examples EXAMPLES: remove completely outdated acl-content-sw.cfg 2022-05-30 18:14:24 +02:00
include BUG/MINOR: clock: do not mix wall-clock and monotonic time in uptime calculation 2023-02-08 11:06:55 +01:00
reg-tests REGTEST: add RFC7239 forwarded header tests 2023-01-27 15:18:59 +01:00
scripts SCRIPTS: run-regtests: add a version check 2022-11-30 18:44:33 +01:00
src BUG/MINOR: clock: do not mix wall-clock and monotonic time in uptime calculation 2023-02-08 11:06:55 +01:00
tests TESTS: add a unit test for one_among_mask() 2022-06-21 20:29:57 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 13-1 2022-09-09 13:30:17 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore CLEANUP: exclude udp-perturb with .gitignore 2022-09-16 15:47:04 +02:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml CI: travis-ci: temporarily disable arm64 builds 2021-08-07 07:28:15 +02:00
BRANCHES DOC: fix some spelling issues over multiple files 2021-01-08 14:53:47 +01:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 2.8-dev3 2023-02-04 10:51:05 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2022-12-01 15:24:10 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2022-11-30 14:02:36 +01:00
Makefile BUILD: makefile: fix PCRE overriding specific lib path 2023-02-03 09:42:49 +01:00
README DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 2.8-dev3 2023-02-04 10:51:05 +01:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.8-dev3 2023-02-04 10:51:05 +01:00

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for
ease of use.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for :

  - INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  - BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  - LICENSE for the project's license
  - CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory :

  - doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
  - doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
  - doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
  - doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
  - doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
  - doc/management.txt for the management guide
  - doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
  - doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
  - doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
  - doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)