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In clock ticks, 0 is TICK_ETERNITY. Long ago we used to make sure now_ms couldn't be zero so that it could be assigned to expiration timers, but it has long changed after functions like tick_add() were instrumented to make the check. The problem is that aside the rare few accidental direct assignments to expiration dates, it's also used to mark the beginning of an event that's later checked against TICK_ETERNITY to know if it has already struck. The problem in this case is that certain events may just be replaced or dropped just because they apparently never appeared. It's probably the case for stconn's "lra" and "fsb" fields, just like it is for all those involving tick_add_ifset(), like h2c->idle_start. The right approach would be to change the type of now_ms to something else that cannot take direct computations and that represents a timestamp, forcing to always use the conversion functions. The variables holding such timestamps would also be distinguished from intervals. At first glance we could have for timestamps: - 0 = never happened (for the past), eternity (for the future) - X = date and for intervals: - 0 = not set - X = interval However this requires significant changes. Instead for now, let's just make sure again that now_ms is never 0 by setting it to 1 when this happens (1 / 4 billion times, or 1ms every 49.7 days). This will need to be carefully backported to older versions. Note that with this patch backported, the previous ones fixing the zero date are not strictly needed.
HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
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)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.