Summary

Add stop-server procedure to spiffy

Metadata

• Id: ef61b9448b747ff36330acbb2a98e723ee0673bf
• Trac id: 1616
• Type: enhancement
• Reporter: sjamaan
• Owner: sjamaan
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: extensions
• Estimated difficulty: easy
• Resolution: wontfix
• Priority: minor
• Milestone: someday
• Version: 5.0.0
• Changetime: 2019-05-18 15:57:22 UTC
• Created: 2019-05-09 08:42:25 UTC
• Keywords: spiffy

Description

In some cases, it can be useful to gracefully stop accepting new connections so that the main thread can return. Useful when spawning a temporary server or so.

Changes and comments

[2019-05-18 15:57:22 UTC] sjamaan changed status from new to closed

[2019-05-18 15:57:22 UTC] sjamaan set resolution to wontfix

[2019-05-18 15:57:22 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

With the current design, this is very difficult; we can't stop a "hanging" accept call, which is what Spiffy does immediately upon entering the accept loop. When a request is handled, it fires off a thread to handle the request and loops to accept the next incoming request.