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diff --git a/doc/s6-tcpserver6d.html b/doc/s6-tcpserver6d.html deleted file mode 100644 index 585fa41..0000000 --- a/doc/s6-tcpserver6d.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,112 +0,0 @@ -<html> - <head> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" /> - <title>s6-networking: the s6-tcpserver6d program</title> - <meta name="Description" content="s6-networking: the s6-tcpserver6d program" /> - <meta name="Keywords" content="s6-networking s6-tcpserver6d tcpserver ucspi tcp server super-server ipv6" /> - <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//skarnet.org/default.css" /> --> - </head> -<body> - -<p> -<a href="index.html">s6-networking</a><br /> -<a href="//skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br /> -<a href="//skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a> -</p> - -<h1> The <tt>s6-tcpserver6d</tt> program </h1> - -<p> -<tt>s6-tcpserver6d</tt> is the serving part of the -<a href="s6-tcpserver6.html">s6-tcpserver6</a> super-server. -It assumes that its stdin is a bound and listening TCP/IPv6 socket, -and it accepts connections from clients connecting to it, -forking a program to handle each connection. -</p> - -<h2> Interface </h2> - -<pre> - s6-tcpserver6d [ -1 ] [ -v <em>verbosity</em> ] [ -c <em>maxconn</em> ] [ -C <em>localmaxconn</em> ] <em>prog...</em> -</pre> - -<ul> - <li> s6-tcpserver6d accepts connections from clients to an already -bound and listening TCP socket which is its standard input. </li> - <li> For every TCP connection to this socket, it -forks. The child sets some environment variables, then -executes <em>prog...</em> with stdin reading from the network -socket and stdout writing to it. </li> - <li> Depending on the verbosity level, it logs what it does to stderr. </li> - <li> It runs until killed by a signal. Depending on the received -signal, it may kill its children before exiting. </li> -</ul> - -<h2> Environment variables </h2> - -<p> - For each connection, an instance of <em>prog...</em> is spawned with -the following variables set: -</p> - -<ul> - <li> PROTO: always set to TCP </li> - <li> TCPREMOTEIP: set to the originating address </li> - <li> TCPREMOTEPORT: set to the originating port </li> - <li> TCPCONNNUM: set to the number of connections originating from -the same IP address </li> -</ul> - -<h2> Options </h2> - -<ul> - <li> <tt>-1</tt> : write a newline to stdout, and close stdout, -right before entering the client-accepting loop. -If stdout is suitably redirected, this can be used by monitoring -programs to check when the server is accepting connections, for instance -s6's <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/notifywhenup.html">readiness -notification mechanism</a>. </li> - <li> <tt>-v <em>verbosity</em></tt> : be more or less verbose. -By default, <em>verbosity</em> is 1: print warning messages to stderr. -0 means only print fatal error messages ; 2 means print status and -connection information for every client. </li> - <li> <tt>-c <em>maxconn</em></tt> : accept at most -<em>maxconn</em> concurrent connections. Default is 40. It is -impossible to set it higher than 1000. </li> - <li> <tt>-C <em>localmaxconn</em></tt> : accept at most -<em>localmaxconn</em> connections from the same IP address. -Default is 40. It is impossible to set it higher than <em>maxconn</em>. </li> -</ul> - -<h2> Signals </h2> - -<ul> - <li> SIGTERM: exit. </li> - <li> SIGHUP: send a SIGTERM and a SIGCONT to all children. </li> - <li> SIGQUIT: send a SIGTERM and a SIGCONT to all children, then exit. </li> - <li> SIGABRT: send a SIGKILL to all children, then exit. </li> -</ul> - -<h2> Notes </h2> - -<ul> - <li> Unlike its ancestor -<a href="https://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html">tcpserver</a>, -s6-tcpserver6d performs just the bare minimum: the point is to have a -very small and very fast process to serve connections with the least -possible overhead. Features such as additional environment variables, -access control and DNS resolution are provided -via the <a href="s6-tcpserver-access.html">s6-tcpserver-access</a> -program. </li> - <li> s6-tcpserver6d is meant to be execve'd into by a program that gets -the listening socket. That program is normally -<a href="s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder.html">s6-tcpserver6-socketbinder</a>, -which creates the socket itself; but it can be a different one if the -socket is to be retrieved by another means, for instance by fd-passing -from a fd-holding daemon (some people call this "socket activation"). </li> -</ul> - -</body> -</html> |