wok annotate perl-net-server/description.txt @ rev 24562

updated fpm2 (0.79 -> 0.90)
author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Fri Feb 25 16:44:38 2022 +0100 (2022-02-25)
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Hans-G?nter@24245 1 Net::Server is an extensible, generic Perl server engine.
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Hans-G?nter@24245 3 Net::Server attempts to be a generic server as in Net::Daemon and
Hans-G?nter@24245 4 NetServer::Generic.
Hans-G?nter@24245 5 It includes with it the ability to run as an inetd process
Hans-G?nter@24245 6 (Net::Server::INET), a single connection server (Net::Server or
Hans-G?nter@24245 7 Net::Server::Single), a forking server (Net::Server::Fork),
Hans-G?nter@24245 8 a preforking server which maintains a constant number of preforked
Hans-G?nter@24245 9 children (Net::Server::PreForkSimple), or as a managed preforking
Hans-G?nter@24245 10 server which maintains the number of children based on server load
Hans-G?nter@24245 11 (Net::Server::PreFork).
Hans-G?nter@24245 12 In all but the inetd type, the server provides the ability to connect
Hans-G?nter@24245 13 to one or to multiple server ports.
Hans-G?nter@24245 14
Hans-G?nter@24245 15 The additional server types are made possible via "personalities" or
Hans-G?nter@24245 16 sub classes of the Net::Server.
Hans-G?nter@24245 17 By moving the multiple types of servers out of the main Net::Server
Hans-G?nter@24245 18 class, the Net::Server concept is easily extended to other types
Hans-G?nter@24245 19 (in the near future, we would like to add a "Thread" personality).
Hans-G?nter@24245 20
Hans-G?nter@24245 21 Net::Server borrows several concepts from the Apache Webserver.
Hans-G?nter@24245 22 Net::Server uses "hooks" to allow custom servers such as SMTP, HTTP,
Hans-G?nter@24245 23 POP3, etc. to be layered over the base Net::Server class.
Hans-G?nter@24245 24 In addition the Net::Server::PreFork class borrows concepts of
Hans-G?nter@24245 25 min_start_servers, max_servers, and min_waiting servers.
Hans-G?nter@24245 26 Net::Server::PreFork also uses the concept of an flock serialized
Hans-G?nter@24245 27 accept when accepting on multiple ports (PreFork can choose between
Hans-G?nter@24245 28 flock, IPC::Semaphore, and pipe to control serialization).