Add support for external pthreads lib on windows and some docs about how to do.
It can build with LWS_WITH_THREADPOOL and LWS_WITH_MINIMAL_EXAMPLES including the
pthreads-dependent ones without warnings or errors on windows platform as well with this.
pthreads_t can be anything, including a struct - not a pointer-to-a-struct
but the struct itself. These can't be cast to a void * for printing as they can
on linux, where the base type is a pointer.
Let's fix all the usage of those to determine their own thread index in terms
of the meaning to the program rather than as a tid.
There's a subtle difference between fork and vfork... when doing the
dup() before the exec, with cfork we are still dealing with the
parent process "possessed" by the forked process briefly inbetween
the vfork() and the exec().
That matters because when we close the duplicated fds for the stdxxx
pipes, with vfork we're closing the fd we still want to hold in the
parent process.
This extends threadpool slightly so it can bind enqueued tasks to a
secure streams handle as well as a straight wsi.
Either the .wsi must be set as before, or the .ss handle if you are
using secure streams, when enqueuing a task on the taskpool.
A couple of other helpers get ss-aware wrappers if LWS_WITH_SECURE_STREAMS
Although threadpool was originally designed for server (gitohashi)
actually it's also fine working with client wsi / Secure Streams,
if you have a situation a client connection is associated with heavy
processing.
Secure Streams is an optional layer on top of lws that separates policy
like endpoint selection and tls cert validation into a device JSON
policy document.
Code that wants to open a client connection just specifies a streamtype name,
and no longer deals with details like the endpoint, the protocol (!) or anything
else other than payloads and optionally generic metadata; the JSON policy
contains all the details for each streamtype. h1, h2, ws and mqtt client
connections are supported.
Logical secure streams outlive any particular connection and supports "nailed-up"
connectivity regardless of underlying connection stability.
Continue with lws_struct, add sqlite support for one
level of lws_dll2_t lists of structs serialization and
deserialization, plus the matching api-test.
The vfork optimized spawn, stdxxx and terminal handling in the cgi
implementation is quite mature and sophisticated, and useful for
other things unrelated to cgi. Break it out into its own public
api under LWS_WITH_SPAWN, off by default.
Expand it so the parent wsi is optional, and the role and protocol
bindings for stdxxx pipes can be set. Allow optional sul timeout
and external lws_dll2 owner for extant children.
Remove inline style from minimal http-server-cgi
This provides support to build lws using the linkit 7697 public SDK
from here https://docs.labs.mediatek.com/resource/mt7687-mt7697/en/downloads
This toolchain has some challenges, its int32_t / uint32_t are long,
so assumptions about format strings for those being %u / %d / %x all
break. This fixes all the cases for the features enabled by the
default cmake settings.
There are some minor public api type improvements rather than cast everywhere
inside lws and user code to work around them... these changed from int to
size_t
- lws_buflist_use_segment() return
- lws_tokenize_t .len and .token_len
- lws_tokenize_cstr() length
- lws_get_peer_simple() namelen
- lws_get_peer_simple_fd() namelen, int fd -> lws_sockfd_type fd
- lws_write_numeric_address() len
- lws_sa46_write_numeric_address() len
These changes are typically a NOP for user code
Optimizations for memory-tight systems.
Check all previous gaps first for any usage, so gaps we created when
faced with perhaps a relatively large allocation that left a lot of
the last chunk on the table can be backfilled with smaller things as
it goes on.
Separate the members that only live in the head object out of the
buffer management object, reducing the cost of new chunks. Allocate
the head object members as the first thing in the first chunk, and
adjust all the code to look there for them.
Add lwsac helper api to allow user code to perform constant string folding
easily within an lwsac. After isolating a string or blob that it wants to store in
the lwsac and point to, it can check if the string or blob already exists earlier
in the lwsac first, and if so just point to that without copying it in again.
For some formats with repeated strings like JSON, the saving can add up to
something useful.
lws has been able to generate client multipart mime as shown
in minimal-http-client-post, but it requires a lot of user
boilerplate to handle the boundary, related transaction header,
and multipart headers.
This patch adds a client creation flag to indicate it will
carry multipart mime, which autocreates the boundary string
and applies the transaction header with it, and an api to
form the boundary headers between the different mime parts
and the terminating boundary.
This adds the option to have lws do its own dns resolution on
the event loop, without blocking. Existing implementations get
the name resolution done by the libc, which is blocking. In
the case you are opening client connections but need to carefully
manage latency, another connection opening and doing the name
resolution becomes a big problem.
Currently it supports
- ipv4 / A records
- ipv6 / AAAA records
- ipv4-over-ipv6 ::ffff:1.2.3.4 A record promotion for ipv6
- only one server supported over UDP :53
- nameserver discovery on linux, windows, freertos
It also has some nice advantages
- lws-style paranoid response parsing
- random unique tid generation to increase difficulty of poisoning
- it's really integrated with the lws event loop, it does not spawn
threads or use the libc resolver, and of course no blocking at all
- platform-specific server address capturing (from /etc/resolv.conf
on linux, windows apis on windows)
- it has LRU caching
- piggybacking (multiple requests before the first completes go on
a list on the first request, not spawn multiple requests)
- observes TTL in cache
- TTL and timeout use lws_sul timers on the event loop
- ipv6 pieces only built if cmake LWS_IPV6 enabled
Generic sessions has been overdue some love to align it with
the progress in the rest of lws.
1) Strict Content Security Policy
2) http2 compatibility
3) fixes and additions for use in a separate process via unix domain socket
4) work on ws and http proxying in lws
5) add minimal example
