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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Sun Feb 06 09:47:43 2022 +0100 (2022-02-06) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/perl-net-server/description.txt Sun Feb 06 09:47:43 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ 1.4 +Net::Server is an extensible, generic Perl server engine. 1.5 + 1.6 +Net::Server attempts to be a generic server as in Net::Daemon and 1.7 +NetServer::Generic. 1.8 +It includes with it the ability to run as an inetd process 1.9 +(Net::Server::INET), a single connection server (Net::Server or 1.10 +Net::Server::Single), a forking server (Net::Server::Fork), 1.11 +a preforking server which maintains a constant number of preforked 1.12 +children (Net::Server::PreForkSimple), or as a managed preforking 1.13 +server which maintains the number of children based on server load 1.14 +(Net::Server::PreFork). 1.15 +In all but the inetd type, the server provides the ability to connect 1.16 +to one or to multiple server ports. 1.17 + 1.18 +The additional server types are made possible via "personalities" or 1.19 +sub classes of the Net::Server. 1.20 +By moving the multiple types of servers out of the main Net::Server 1.21 +class, the Net::Server concept is easily extended to other types 1.22 +(in the near future, we would like to add a "Thread" personality). 1.23 + 1.24 +Net::Server borrows several concepts from the Apache Webserver. 1.25 +Net::Server uses "hooks" to allow custom servers such as SMTP, HTTP, 1.26 +POP3, etc. to be layered over the base Net::Server class. 1.27 +In addition the Net::Server::PreFork class borrows concepts of 1.28 +min_start_servers, max_servers, and min_waiting servers. 1.29 +Net::Server::PreFork also uses the concept of an flock serialized 1.30 +accept when accepting on multiple ports (PreFork can choose between 1.31 +flock, IPC::Semaphore, and pipe to control serialization).