wsi timeout, wsi hrtimer, sequencer timeout and vh-protocol timer
all now participate on a single sorted us list.
The whole idea of polling wakes is thrown out, poll waits ignore the
timeout field and always use infinite timeouts.
Introduce a public api that can schedule its own callback from the event
loop with us resolution (usually ms is all the platform can do).
Upgrade timeouts and sequencer timeouts to also be able to use us resolution.
Introduce a prepared fakewsi in the pt, so we don't have to allocate
one on the heap when we need it.
Directly handle vh-protocol timer if LWS_MAX_SMP == 1
There are quite a few linked-lists of things that want events after
some period. This introduces a type binding an lws_dll2 for the
list and a lws_usec_t for the duration.
The wsi timeouts, the hrtimer and the sequencer timeouts are converted
to use these, also in the common event wait calculation.
lws_dll2 removes the downsides of lws_dll and adds new features like a
running member count and explicit owner type... it's cleaner and more
robust (eg, nodes know their owner, so they can casually switch between
list owners and remove themselves without the code knowing the owner).
This deprecates lws_dll, but since it's public it allows it to continue
to be built for 4.0 release if you give cmake LWS_WITH_DEPRECATED_LWS_DLL.
All remaining internal users of lws_dll are migrated to lws_dll2.
Adapt service loops and event libs to use microsecond waits
internally, for hrtimer and sequencer. Reduce granularity
according to platform / event lib wait.
Add a helper so there's a single place to extend it.
Since the messages are queued and then read in order from the event loop
thread, it's not generally safe to pass pointers to argument structs,
since there's no guarantee the lifetime of the thing sending the message
lasted until the sequencer read the message.
This puts pressure on the single void * argument-passed-as-value... this patch
adds a second void * argument-passed-as-value so it's more possible to put
what's needed directly in the argument.
It's also possible to alloc the argument on the heap and have the sequencer
callback free it after it has read it.
Add a generic table-based backoff scheme and a helper to track the
try count and calculate the next delay in ms.
Allow lws_sequencer_t to be given one of these at creation time...
since the number of creation args is getting a bit too much
convert that to an info struct at the same time.
Rewrite HMAC stuff to use HMAC_ apis instead of EVP
Bit trickly since modern OpenSSL has opaque HMAC_CTX and older
OpenSSL does not have any apis to allocate and free it.
Add another cmake check for the allocation api to decide
what to do.
When creating a vhost and the port is already bound to another process
this flag would allow the user code to choose to have the
lws_create_vhost function to fail and return a null pointer.
SMTP was improved to use the new abstract stuff a while ago,
but it was only implemented with raw socket abstract transport,
and a couple of 'api cheats' remained passing network information
for the peer connection through the supposedly abstract apis.
This patch adds a flexible generic token array to supply
abstract transport-specific information through the abstract apis,
removing the network information from the abstract connect() op.
The SMTP minimal example is modified to use this new method to
pass the network information.
The abstract transport struct was opaque, but there are real
uses to override it in user code, so this patch also makes it
part of the public abi.
An lws context usually contains a processwide fd -> wsi lookup table.
This allows any possible fd returned by a *nix type OS to be immediately
converted to a wsi just by indexing an array of struct lws * the size of
the highest possible fd, as found by ulimit -n or similar.
This works modestly for Linux type systems where the default ulimit -n for
a process is 1024, it means a 4KB or 8KB lookup table for 32-bit or
64-bit systems.
However in the case your lws usage is much simpler, like one outgoing
client connection and no serving, this represents increasing waste. It's
made much worse if the system has a much larger default ulimit -n, eg 1M,
the table is occupying 4MB or 8MB, of which you will only use one.
Even so, because lws can't be sure the OS won't return a socket fd at any
number up to (ulimit -n - 1), it has to allocate the whole lookup table
at the moment.
This patch looks to see if the context creation info is setting
info->fd_limit_per_thread... if it leaves it at the default 0, then
everything is as it was before this patch. However if finds that
(info->fd_limit_per_thread * actual_number_of_service_threads) where
the default number of service threads is 1, is less than the fd limit
set by ulimit -n, lws switches to a slower lookup table scheme, which
only allocates the requested number of slots. Lookups happen then by
iterating the table and comparing rather than indexing the array
directly, which is obviously somewhat of a performance hit.
However in the case where you know lws will only have a very few wsi
maximum, this method can very usefully trade off speed to be able to
avoid the allocation sized by ulimit -n.
minimal examples for client that can make use of this are also modified
by this patch to use the smaller context allocations.
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
This is aimed at allowing a stride to optionally be
given for the parameter name array... this will allow
use of lws_struct metadata as the parameter name
array.
Also introduce the option to put all allocations in
an lwsac instead of via lws_mallocs.
If you're providing a unix socket service that will be proxied / served by another
process on the same machine, the unix fd permissions on the listening unix socket fd
have to be managed so only something running under the server credentials
can open the listening unix socket.
Up until now if you wanted to drop privs, a numeric uid and gid had to be
given in info to control post-init permissions... this adds info.username
and info.groupname where you can do the same using user and group names.
The internal plat helper lws_plat_drop_app_privileges() is updated to directly use
context instead of info both ways it can be called, and to be able to return fatal
errors.
All failures to lookup non-0 or -1 uid or gid names from uid, or to look up
uid or gid from username or groupnames given, get an err message and fatal exit.
The callback flow is a bit more disruptive than doing the iteration
directly in your function. This helps by passing a user void *
into the callback set as an lws_dll[2]_foreach_safe() arg.
We use POSIX dir scanning apis normally, but for windows, we require libuv
to do it for us.
Formalize that into a wrapper lws_dir() that hides the backend code.
Make it configurable, ON by default and forced on with lejp-conf that
depends on it.
