Ah, I felt it. I needed to read it from someone that knows better. So... Big refactor time :)
Thank you Maxim On 04/05/2021 16:59, Maxim Dounin wrote: > Hello! > > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 04:11:34PM +0200, Alfred Sawaya wrote: > >> I am currently converting an Apache module to Nginx. This module uses >> subrequests and needs (for now) to execute the subrequest without >> unwinding the stack (ie without returning to nginx). >> >> I tried to call ngx_http_run_posted_requests by hand, but it does not >> work as the upstream socket needs to get polled some time. >> >> So I wonder, is there any way to do this ? > No. Since nginx is event-driven, you essentially cannot do > anything without returning control back to nginx to execute the > event loop. > >> Of course I know that I shouldn't do it like this, but the current >> module is not reentrant and poorly architectured. I will eventually >> refactor it but later. > You may want to start with throwing away the module, and writing > another one for nginx from scratch. "Converting" rarely works > even for simple and well-written modules. > _______________________________________________ nginx-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx-devel
