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CPPSERV v0.0.5 released
This release features completely rewritten threading code.
Instead of having the awfull mess between RequestDispatcher
and RequestHandler, each keeping track of locks, connections,
threads, etc. separately, we now have nicely separated Queue
class, that deals with thread pooling and task distribution.
Task in this case is single client connection, which gets
accepted by dispatcher, wrapped into RequestHandler
object, and queued into the pool for processing.
As a result threading code is lot cleaner, and
dispatching/request handling code became very
small and simple.
Also, for now thread-pool size is fixed. Perhaps it would
make sense to make it configurable option, or, more
likely startup parameter. One of the reasons, is that
stopping threads cleanly is PITA, and I didn't find
any way to make it nice.
To be more specific, cancelling POSIX thread does not
let me unroll the stack propperly. Thus, if I interrupt a thread
running servlet->service funtion, none of the on-stack objects
will be destroyed.
One of the possible ways to handle this, is to use "polite" mode
threads, and find a way to make them throw an exception when
"stop" function is called. This could be done through combination
of signal handlers and some gcc magic, but of course it wouldn't
be very portable then. And do NPTL threads have sparate PID, or
have a way to send a signal to specific thread anyways?
Another option is to explicitly do stack unwinding from CThread.onExit()
function, but that of course is just as unportable...
Still something to ponder for a while.