Clearing cache based on free space left on a file system is
expected to allow better disk utilization in some cases, notably
when disk space might be also used for something other than nginx
cache (including nginx own temporary files) and while loading
cache (when cache size might be inaccurate for a while, effectively
disabling max_size cache clearing).
Based on a patch by Adam Bambuch.
With XFS, using "allocsize=64m" mount option results in large preallocation
being reported in the st_blocks as returned by fstat() till the file is
closed. This in turn results in incorrect cache size calculations and
wrong clearing based on max_size.
To avoid too aggressive cache clearing on such volumes, st_blocks values
which result in sizes larger than st_size and eight blocks (an arbitrary
limit) are no longer trusted, and we use st_size instead.
The ngx_de_fs_size() counterpart is intentionally not modified, as
it is used on closed files and hence not affected by this problem.
Previous interface of ngx_open_dir() assumed that passed directory name
has a room for NGX_DIR_MASK at the end (NGX_DIR_MASK_LEN bytes). While all
direct users of ngx_dir_open() followed this interface, this also implied
similar requirements for indirect uses - in particular, via ngx_walk_tree().
Currently none of ngx_walk_tree() uses provides appropriate space, and
fixing this does not look like a right way to go. Instead, ngx_dir_open()
interface was changed to not require any additional space and use
appropriate allocations instead.
The ngx_thread_write_chain_to_file() function introduced, which
uses ngx_file_t thread_handler, thread_ctx and thread_task fields.
The task context structure (ngx_thread_file_ctx_t) is the same for
both reading and writing, and can be safely shared as long as
operations are serialized.
The task->handler field is now always set (and not only when task is
allocated), as the same task can be used with different handlers.
The thread_write flag is introduced in the ngx_temp_file_t structure
to explicitly enable use of ngx_thread_write_chain_to_file() in
ngx_write_chain_to_temp_file() when supported by caller.
In collaboration with Valentin Bartenev.
This simplifies the interface of the ngx_thread_read() function.
Additionally, most of the thread operations now explicitly set
file->thread_task, file->thread_handler and file->thread_ctx,
to facilitate use of thread operations in other places.
(Potential problems remain with sendfile in threads though - it uses
file->thread_handler as set in ngx_output_chain(), and it should not
be overwritten to an incompatible one.)
In collaboration with Valentin Bartenev.
This reduces layering violation and simplifies the logic of AIO preread, since
it's now triggered by the send chain function itself without falling back to
the copy filter. The context of AIO operation is now stored per file buffer,
which makes it possible to properly handle cases when multiple buffers come
from different locations, each with its own configuration.
This brings Cygwin compilation in line with other case-insensitive
systems (notably win32 and OS X) where one can force case sensitivity
using -DNGX_HAVE_CASELESS_FILESYSTEM=0.
This patch fixes incorrect handling of auto redirect in configurations
like:
location /0 { }
location /a- { }
location /a/ { proxy_pass ... }
With previously used sorting, this resulted in the following locations
tree (as "-" is less than "/"):
"/a-"
"/0" "/a/"
and a request to "/a" didn't match "/a/" with auto_redirect, as it
didn't traverse relevant tree node during lookup (it tested "/a-",
then "/0", and then falled back to null location).
To preserve locale use for non-ASCII characters on case-insensetive
systems, libc's tolower() used.
It was introduced in Linux 2.6.39, glibc 2.14 and allows to obtain
file descriptors without actually opening files. Thus made it possible
to traverse path with openat() syscalls without the need to have read
permissions for path components. It is effectively emulates O_SEARCH
which is missing on Linux.
O_PATH is used in combination with O_RDONLY. The last one is ignored
if O_PATH is used, but it allows nginx to not fail when it was built on
modern system (i.e. glibc 2.14+) and run with a kernel older than 2.6.39.
Then O_PATH is unknown to the kernel and ignored, while O_RDONLY is used.
Sadly, fstat() is not working with O_PATH descriptors till Linux 3.6.
As a workaround we fallback to fstatat() with the AT_EMPTY_PATH flag
that was introduced at the same time as O_PATH.
POSIX doesn't require it to be defined, and Debian GNU/Hurd doesn't define
it. Note that if there is no MAX_PATH defined we have to use realpath()
with NULL argument and free() the result.
ZFS reports incorrect st_blocks until file settles on disk, and this
may take a while (i.e. just after creation of a file the st_blocks value
is incorrect). As a workaround we now use st_blocks only if
st_blocks * 512 > st_size, this should fix ZFS problems while still
preserving accuracy for other filesystems.
The problem had appeared in r3900 (1.0.1).
Solaris has AT_FDCWD defined to unsigned value, and comparison of a file
descriptor with it causes warnings in modern versions of gcc. Explicitly
cast AT_FDCWD to ngx_fd_t to resolve these warnings.
this fixes slash after link to a directory in ngx_http_autoindex_module;
*) use cached dirent.d_type as hint on all systems
the issues has been introduced in r2235
therefore fallback to stat() if dirent.d_type is not set,
this fixes slash after directory name in ngx_http_autoindex_module;
the issue has been introduced in r2235
