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When several commands are chained on the master CLI, the same client
connection is used. Because, it is a TCP connection, the mux PT is used. It
means there is no stream at the mux level. It is not possible to release the
applicative stream between each commands as for the HTTP. So, to work around
this limitation, between two commands, the master CLI is resetting the
stream. It does exactly what it was performed on HTTP to manage keep-alive
connections on old HAProxy versions.
But this part was copied from a code dealing with connection only while the
back endpoint can be an applet or a mux for the master cli. The previous fix
on the mux PT ("BUG/MEDIUM: mux-pt: Never fully close the connection on
shutdown") revealed a bug. Between two commands, the back endpoint was only
released if the connection's XPRT was closed. This works if the back
endpoint is an applet because there is no connection. But for commands sent
to a worker, a connection is used. At this stage, this only works if the
connection's XPRT is closed. Otherwise, the old endpoint is never detached
leading to undefined behavior on the next command execution (most probably a
crash).
Without the commit above, the connection's XPRT is always closed on
shutdown. It is no longer true. At this stage, we must inconditionnally
release the back endpoint by resetting the corresponding sedesc to fix the
bug.
This patch must be backported with the commit above in all stable
versions. On 2.4 and lower, it will need to be adapted.
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.