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William Lallemand d7f6819161 BUG/MEDIUM: mworker: fix startup and reload on macOS
Since the mworker rework in haproxy 3.1, the worker need to tell the
master that it is ready. This is done using the sockpair protocol by
sending a _send_status message to the master.

It seems that the sockpair protocol is buggy on macOS because of a known
issue around fd transfer documented in sendmsg(2):

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?sendmsg(2) BUGS section

  Because sendmsg() does not necessarily block until the data has been
  transferred, it is possible to transfer an open file descriptor across
  an AF_UNIX domain socket (see recv(2)), then close() it before it has
  actually been sent, the result being that the receiver gets a closed
  file descriptor. It is left to the application to implement an
  acknowledgment mechanism to prevent this from happening.

Indeed the recv side of the sockpair is closed on the send side just
after the send_fd_uxst(), which does not implement an acknowledgment
mechanism. So the master might never recv the _send_status message.

In order to implement an acknowledgment mechanism, a blocking read() is
done before closing the recv fd on the sending side, so we are sure that
the message was read on the other side.

This was only reproduced on macOS, meaning the master CLI is also
impacted on macOS. But no solution was found on macOS for it.
Implementing an acknowledgment mechanism would complexify too much the
protocol in non-blocking mode.

The problem was reported in ticket #3045, reproduced and analyzed by
@cognet.

Must be backported as far as 3.1.
2025-08-28 14:51:46 +02:00
.github CI: Update to actions/checkout@v5 2025-08-13 19:15:04 +02:00
addons MINOR: applet: Add a flag to know an applet is using HTX buffers 2025-08-25 11:11:05 +02:00
admin BUG/MINOR: halog: exit with error when some output filters are set simultaneosly 2025-07-17 17:22:37 +02:00
dev DEV: gdb: add a memprofile decoder to the debug tools 2025-07-16 15:33:33 +02:00
doc DOC: configuration: clarify 'default-crt' and implicit default certificates 2025-08-27 17:09:02 +02:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include MINOR: quic: remove ->offset qf_crypto struct field 2025-08-28 08:19:34 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: jwt: create dynamically "cert.ecdsa.pem" 2025-08-25 16:44:24 +02:00
scripts BUILD: adjust scripts/build-ssl.sh to modern CMake system of QuicTLS 2025-07-11 05:04:31 +02:00
src BUG/MEDIUM: mworker: fix startup and reload on macOS 2025-08-28 14:51:46 +02:00
tests TESTS: Fix build for filltab25.c 2025-04-03 15:59:41 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-2 2025-02-12 13:18:55 +01:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES DOC: fix some spelling issues over multiple files 2021-01-08 14:53:47 +01:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev7 2025-08-20 21:52:39 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2025-05-28 16:46:15 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile MINOR: build: Add a new option, USE_KTLS. 2025-08-20 18:33:11 +02:00
README.md DOC: change the link to the FreeBSD CI in README.md 2024-06-03 15:21:29 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev7 2025-08-20 21:52:39 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev7 2025-08-20 21:52:39 +02:00

HAProxy

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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:

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.