On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Kay Sievers <k...@vrfy.org> wrote: > Also this thing does not actually *activate* anything it just proxies.
I was going more for socket *activated* proxy, in the sense that the proxy uses socket activation to get its listen() fd. > And long-running processes should get a d(aemon) at the end. Agreed here. Not sure why I forgot about that. I'll add that in. > So why not just call it systemd-socket-proxyd. It doesn't emphasize the main reason someone would use this over existing tools. (Admittedly, "sa" doesn't do so too directly, either.) Say the word "proxy" to someone who's a developer or in IT, and they'll already assume it's a proxy based on *sockets*, even if they don't know what sockets are, exactly. We can compare to these established ones: * haproxy can do pure TCP (protocol neutrality) at scale (event-driven), but it can't start with socket activation or use Unix sockets. * socat is also protocol-neutral, but it assumes any inherited socket is post-accept(). It can only do listen() if it doesn't inherit the socket. There are also questions about its performance and reliability at scale (it's thread-based). It's not really designed to be a long-running daemon. * nginx can inherit sockets and run at scale (event-driven), but it's protocol-constrained to HTTP and SMTP, maybe one more. The proxy here (1) accepts an inherited socket for activation, (2) works with Unix domain sockets, (3) is protocol-neutral, and (4) should work at scale. Of those four characteristics, I consider the first (socket activation) the most novel and the main reason someone would opt for this proxy over other, established ones. This systemd-bundled proxy should work for creating socket-activate-able MySQL, Redis, Tomcat, Cassandra, some of which may never get native socket activation support. Would systemd-activated-proxyd work? I'd also consider systemd-socket-activated-proxyd. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
