This patch series implements a CLI on the master process. It's a work in progress but it is now in a usable state, so people might be interessed in testing it.
The CLI on the master is organized this way: * The master process implements a CLI proxy which contains: - a listener for each -S argument on the command line - a server using a socketpair for each worker process - a CLI applet * The workers have a new CLI listener which is bound on a socketpair. This CLI is special and can be configured only from the program argument. It was done this way so a reload with a wrong configuration won't destroy the socket. To add a new listener to this CLI proxy, use the -S argument. You can add some bind options to these sockets, it uses the same options as the bind keyword but the separator is a comma instead of a space. Example: ./haproxy -W -S /tmp/master-socket -f test1.cfg ./haproxy -W -S /tmp/master-socket,mode,700,uid,1000,gid,1000 -f test1.cfg This CLI proxy is using a CLI analyzer which allows it to send commands on the workers. To this purpose a routing command have been implemented, it can be used alone to send every next commands to the same place, or as a prefix for a command. The CLI prompt will change depending of the next default target to send a command. Example: $ socat /tmp/master-socket readline help Unknown command. Please enter one of the following commands only : help : this message prompt : toggle interactive mode with prompt quit : disconnect @<relative pid> : send a command to the <relative pid> process @!<pid> : send a command to the <pid> process @master : send a command to the master process show cli sockets : dump list of cli sockets show proc : show processes status master> show proc # <PID> <type> <relative PID> 5248 master 0 5249 worker 1 5250 worker 2 5251 worker 3 master> @1 5249> show info [...] 5249> @ master> @1 show info; @!5250 show info [...] Known issues that will be fixed for 1.9: - The prompt is enabled by default, and the "prompt" command is not parsed yet - Might have difficulties with old processes - multiple commands on the same line won't work because of recent changes in process_stream - admin/oper/user permissions are not implemented Limitations that won't be fixed for 1.9: - The connection is closed during a reload - It's not a stats/commands aggregator :-) The documentation is coming later as I'm writing a more complete doc for the master worker.