Starting with FreeBSD 11, there is no need to use AIO operations to preload
data into cache for sendfile(SF_NODISKIO) to work. Instead, sendfile()
handles non-blocking loading data from disk by itself. It still can, however,
return EBUSY if a page is already being loaded (for example, by a different
process). If this happens, we now post an event for the next event loop
iteration, so sendfile() is retried "after a short period", as manpage
recommends.
The limit of the number of EBUSY tolerated without any progress is preserved,
but now it does not result in an alert, since on an idle system event loop
iteration might be very short and EBUSY can happen many times in a row.
Instead, SF_NODISKIO is simply disabled for one call once the limit is
reached.
With this change, sendfile(SF_NODISKIO) is now used automatically as long as
sendfile() is enabled, and no longer requires "aio on;".
The PCRE2 library is now used by default if found, instead of the
original PCRE library. If needed for some reason, this can be disabled
with the --without-pcre2 configure option.
To make it possible to specify paths to the library and include files
via --with-cc-opt / --with-ld-opt, the library is first tested without
any additional paths and options. If this fails, the pcre2-config script
is used.
Similarly to the original PCRE library, it is now possible to build PCRE2
from sources with nginx configure, by using the --with-pcre= option.
It automatically detects if PCRE or PCRE2 sources are provided.
Note that compiling PCRE2 10.33 and later requires inttypes.h. When
compiling on Windows with MSVC, inttypes.h is only available starting
with MSVC 2013. In older versions some replacement needs to be provided
("echo '#include <stdint.h>' > pcre2-10.xx/src/inttypes.h" is good enough
for MSVC 2010).
The interface on nginx side remains unchanged.
In FreeBSD 13, eventfd(2) was added, and this breaks build
with --test-build-epoll and without --with-file-aio. Fix is
to move eventfd(2) detection to auto/os/linux, as it is used
only on Linux as a notification mechanism for epoll().
The strerrordesc_np() function, introduced in glibc 2.32, provides an
async-signal-safe way to obtain error messages. This makes it possible
to avoid copying error messages.
Previously, systems without sys_nerr (or _sys_nerr) were handled with an
assumption that errors start at 0 and continuous. This is, however, not
something POSIX requires, and not true on some platforms.
Notably, on Linux, where sys_nerr is no longer available for newly linked
binaries starting with glibc 2.32, there are gaps in error list, which
used to stop us from properly detecting maximum errno. Further, on
GNU/Hurd errors start at 0x40000001.
With this change, maximum errno detection is moved to the runtime code,
now able to ignore gaps, and also detects the first error if needed.
This fixes observed "Unknown error" messages as seen on Linux with
glibc 2.32 and on GNU/Hurd.
When installing or running from a non-root user it is sometimes required to
override default, compiled in error log path. There was no way to do this
without rebuilding the binary (ticket #147).
This patch introduced "-e" command line option which allows one to override
compiled in error log path.
Addon modules, both dynamic and static, can now use shared source files.
Shared sources result in only one make rule even if specified several
times in different modules.
This makes it possible to avoid looping for a long time while working
with a fast enough peer when data are added to the socket buffer faster
than we are able to read and process them (ticket #1431). This is
basically what we already do on FreeBSD with kqueue, where information
about the number of bytes in the socket buffer is returned by
the kevent() call.
With other event methods rev->available is now set to -1 when the socket
is ready for reading. Later in ngx_recv() and ngx_recv_chain(), if
full buffer is received, real number of bytes in the socket buffer is
retrieved using ioctl(FIONREAD). Reading more than this number of bytes
ensures that even with edge-triggered event methods the event will be
triggered again, so it is safe to stop processing of the socket and
switch to other connections.
Using ioctl(FIONREAD) only after reading a full buffer is an optimization.
With this approach we only call ioctl(FIONREAD) when there are at least
two recv()/readv() calls.
Postpone filter is an essential part of subrequest functionality. In absence
of it a subrequest response body is sent to the client out of order with
respect to the main request header and body, as well as other subrequests.
For in-memory subrequests the response is also sent to the client instead of
being stored in memory.
Currently the postpone filter is automatically enabled if one of the following
standard modules which are known to create subrequests is enabled: ssi, slice,
addition. However a third-party module that creates subrequests can still be
built without the postpone filter or be dynamically loaded in nginx built
without it.
WSAPoll() is only available with Windows Vista and newer (and only
available during compilation if _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0600). To make
sure the code works with Windows XP, we do not redefine _WIN32_WINNT,
but instead load WSAPoll() dynamically if it is not available during
compilation.
Also, sockets are not guaranteed to be small integers on Windows.
So an index array is used instead of NGX_USE_FD_EVENT to map
events to connections.
Previously, select was compiled in by default, but the NGX_HAVE_SELECT
macro was not set, resulting in iocp being used by default unless
the "--with-select_module" configure option was explicitly specified.
Since the iocp module is not finished and does not work properly, this
effectively meant that the "--with-select_module" option was mandatory.
With the change NGX_HAVE_SELECT is properly set, making "--with-select_module"
optional. Accordingly, it is removed from misc/GNUmakefile win32 target.
The module implements random load-balancing algorithm with optional second
choice. In the latter case, the best of two servers is chosen, accounting
number of connections and server weight.
Example:
upstream u {
random [two [least_conn]];
server 127.0.0.1:8080;
server 127.0.0.1:8081;
server 127.0.0.1:8082;
server 127.0.0.1:8083;
}
While 325b3042edd6 fixed it on MINIX, it broke it on systems
that output the word "version" on several lines with "cc -v".
The fix is to only consider "clang version" or "LLVM version"
as clang version, but this time only using sed(1).
This was previously used, but was incorrectly removed in 83d54192e97b
while removing old threads remnants. Instead of using it conditionally
when threads are not used, we now set in unconditionally, as even with
thread pools enabled we never call OpenSSL functions in threads.
This fixes resulting binary when using --with-openssl with OpenSSL 1.1.0+
and without -lpthread linked (notably on FreeBSD without PCRE).
OpenSSL now uses pthread_atfork(), and this requires -lpthread on Linux
to compile. Introduced NGX_LIBPTHREAD to add it as appropriate, similar
to existing NGX_LIBDL.
The module allows passing requests to upstream gRPC servers.
The module is built by default as long as HTTP/2 support is compiled in.
Example configuration:
grpc_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
Alternatively, the "grpc://" scheme can be used:
grpc_pass grpc://127.0.0.1:9000;
Keepalive support is available via the upstream keepalive module. Note
that keepalive connections won't currently work with grpc-go as it fails
to handle SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE.
To use with SSL:
grpc_pass grpcs://127.0.0.1:9000;
SSL connections use ALPN "h2" when available. At least grpc-go works fine
without ALPN, so if ALPN is not available we just establish a connection
without it.
Tested with grpc-c++ and grpc-go.
When clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) (or faster variants, _FAST on FreeBSD,
and _COARSE on Linux) is available, we now use it for ngx_current_msec.
This should improve handling of timers if system time changes (ticket #189).
Previously, capset(2) was called with the 64-bit capabilities version
_LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3. With this version Linux kernel expected two
copies of struct __user_cap_data_struct, while only one was submitted. As a
result, random stack memory was accessed and random capabilities were requested
by the worker. This sometimes caused capset() errors. Now the 32-bit version
_LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1 is used instead. This is OK since CAP_NET_RAW is
a 32-bit capability (CAP_NET_RAW = 13).
Previously included file sys/capability.h mentioned in capset(2) man page,
belongs to the libcap-dev package, which may not be installed on some Linux
systems when compiling nginx. This prevented the capabilities feature from
being detected and compiled on that systems.
Now linux/capability.h system header is included instead. Since capset()
declaration is located in sys/capability.h, now capset() syscall is defined
explicitly in code using the SYS_capset constant, similarly to other
Linux-specific features in nginx.
The capability is retained automatically in unprivileged worker processes after
changing UID if transparent proxying is enabled at least once in nginx
configuration.
The feature is only available in Linux.
In 2c7b488a61fb, IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT test was accidentally placed
between SO_BINDANY, IP_TRANSPARENT, and IP_BINDANY tests. Moved it after
these tests.
As per POSIX, basic regular expressions have no alternations, and the
interpretation of the "\|" construct is undefined. At least on MINIX
and Solaris grep interprets "\|" as literal "|", and not as an alternation
as GNU grep does. Removed such constructs introduced in f1daa0356a1d.
This fixes clang detection on MINIX.
The phase is added instead of the try_files phase. Unlike the old phase, the
new one supports registering multiple handlers. The try_files implementation is
moved to a separate ngx_http_try_files_module, which now registers a precontent
phase handler.
The http_rewrite module cannot be selected when http is disabled.
Fixed the PCRE check condition to avoid irrelevant check failure.
This is a regression from 4d874b4d82ed.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
