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Willy Tarreau bb1caff70f MINOR: fd: add a new "exported" flag and use it for all regular listeners
This new flag will be used to mark FDs that must be passed to any future
process across the CLI's "_getsocks" command.

The scheme here is quite complex and full of special cases:
  - FDs inherited from parent processes are *not* exported this way, as
    they are supposed to instead be passed by the master process itself
    across reloads. However such FDs ought never to be paused otherwise
    this would disrupt the socket in the parent process as well;

  - FDs resulting from a "bind" performed over a socket pair, which are
    in fact one side of a socket pair passed inside another control socket
    pair must not be passed either. Since all of them are used the same
    way, for now it's enough never to put this "exported" flag to FDs
    bound by the socketpair code.

  - FDs belonging to temporary listeners (e.g. a passive FTP data port)
    must not be passed either. Fortunately we don't have such FDs yet.

  - the rest of the listeners for now are made of TCP, UNIX stream, ABNS
    sockets and are exportable, so they get the flag.

  - UDP listeners were wrongly created as listeners and are not suitable
    here. Their FDs should be passed but for now they are not since the
    client doesn't even distinguish the SO_TYPE of the retrieved sockets.

In addition, it's important to keep in mind that:
  - inherited FDs may never be closed in master process but may be closed
    in worker processes if the service is shut down (useless since still
    bound, but technically possible) ;

  - inherited FDs may not be disabled ;

  - exported FDs may be disabled because the caller will perform the
    subsequent listen() on them. However that might not work for all OSes

  - exported FDs may be closed, it just means the service was shut down
    from the worker, and will be rebound in the new process. This implies
    that we have to disable exported on close().

=> as such, contrary to an apparently obvious equivalence, the "exported"
   status doesn't imply anything regarding the ability to close a
   listener's FD or not.
2020-08-26 18:33:52 +02:00
.github DOC: overhauling github issue templates 2020-08-17 20:29:27 +02:00
contrib DOC: spoa-server: fix false friends actually 2020-08-05 22:12:54 +02:00
doc [RELEASE] Released version 2.3-dev3 2020-08-14 18:54:05 +02:00
examples CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2020-06-26 11:27:28 +02:00
include MINOR: fd: add a new "exported" flag and use it for all regular listeners 2020-08-26 18:33:52 +02:00
reg-tests REGTEST: remove stray leading spaces in converteers_ref_cnt_never_dec.vtc 2020-08-19 11:20:28 +02:00
scripts SCRIPTS: git-show-backports: emit the shell command to backport a commit 2020-07-31 16:57:35 +02:00
src MINOR: fd: add a new "exported" flag and use it for all regular listeners 2020-08-26 18:33:52 +02:00
tests MINOR: lists: rename some MT_LIST operations to clarify them 2020-07-10 08:50:41 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: exclude slow reg-tests 2020-07-04 06:58:14 +02:00
.gitignore DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
.travis.yml CI: travis-ci: specify SLZ_LIB, SLZ_INC for travis builds 2020-08-05 11:40:14 +02:00
BRANCHES DOC: assorted typo fixes in the documentation 2020-03-09 14:45:58 +01:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 2.3-dev3 2020-08-14 18:54:05 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING DOC: Use gender neutral language 2020-07-26 22:35:43 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: back to development, update status message 2020-07-07 16:38:51 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS REORG: include: split hathreads into haproxy/thread.h and haproxy/thread-t.h 2020-06-11 10:18:56 +02:00
Makefile BUILD: makefile: don't disable -Wstringop-overflow anymore 2020-08-11 10:31:18 +02:00
README DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
ROADMAP DOC: update the outdated ROADMAP file 2019-06-15 21:59:54 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 2.3-dev3 2020-08-14 18:54:05 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.3-dev3 2020-08-14 18:54:05 +02:00

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)