// Copyright (c) 2020-2023 Cesanta Software Limited // All rights reserved // // Multithreading example. // For each incoming request, we spawn a separate thread, that sleeps for // some time to simulate long processing time, produces an output and // sends that output to the parent connection. #include "mongoose.h" static void start_thread(void *(*f)(void *), void *p) { #ifdef _WIN32 _beginthread((void(__cdecl *)(void *)) f, 0, p); #else #define closesocket(x) close(x) #include pthread_t thread_id = (pthread_t) 0; pthread_attr_t attr; (void) pthread_attr_init(&attr); (void) pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attr, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED); pthread_create(&thread_id, &attr, f, p); pthread_attr_destroy(&attr); #endif } struct thread_data { struct mg_mgr *mgr; unsigned long conn_id; // Parent connection ID struct mg_str message; // Original HTTP request }; static void *thread_function(void *param) { struct thread_data *p = (struct thread_data *) param; sleep(2); // Simulate long execution mg_wakeup(p->mgr, p->conn_id, "hi!", 3); // Respond to parent free((void *) p->message.ptr); // Free all resources that were free(p); // passed to us return NULL; } // HTTP request callback static void fn(struct mg_connection *c, int ev, void *ev_data) { if (ev == MG_EV_HTTP_MSG) { struct mg_http_message *hm = (struct mg_http_message *) ev_data; if (mg_http_match_uri(hm, "/fast")) { // Single-threaded code path, for performance comparison // The /fast URI responds immediately mg_http_reply(c, 200, "Host: foo.com\r\n", "hi\n"); } else { // Multithreading code path struct thread_data *data = calloc(1, sizeof(*data)); // Worker owns it data->message = mg_strdup(hm->message); // Pass message data->conn_id = c->id; data->mgr = c->mgr; start_thread(thread_function, data); // Start thread and pass data } } else if (ev == MG_EV_WAKEUP) { struct mg_str *data = (struct mg_str *) ev_data; mg_http_reply(c, 200, "", "Result: %.*s\n", data->len, data->ptr); } } int main(void) { struct mg_mgr mgr; mg_mgr_init(&mgr); // Initialise event manager mg_log_set(MG_LL_DEBUG); // Set debug log level mg_http_listen(&mgr, "http://localhost:8000", fn, NULL); // Create listener mg_wakeup_init(&mgr); // Initialise wakeup socket pair for (;;) { // Event loop mg_mgr_poll(&mgr, 1000); } mg_mgr_free(&mgr); return 0; }