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We've had a start date even before the internal monotonic clock existed, but once the monotonic clock was added, the start date was not updated to distinguish the wall clock time units and the internal monotonic time units. The distinction is important because both clocks do not necessarily progress at the same speed. The very rare occurrences of the wall-clock date are essentially for human consumption and communication with third parties (e.g. report the start date in "show info" for monitoring purposes). However currently this one is also used to measure the distance to "now" as being the process' uptime. This is actually not correct. It only works because for now the two dates are initialized at the exact same instant at boot but could still be wrong if the system's date shows a big jump backwards during startup for example. In addition the current situation prevents us from enforcing an abritrary offset at boot to reveal some heisenbugs. This patch adds a new "start_time" at boot that is set from "now" and is used in uptime calculations. "start_date" instead is now set from "date" and will always reflect the system date for human consumption (e.g. in "show info"). This way we're now sure that any drift of the internal clock relative to the system date will not impact the reported uptime. This could possibly be backported though it's unlikely that anyone has ever noticed the problem.
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)