When installing or running from a non-root user it is sometimes required to override default, compiled in error log path. There was no way to do this without rebuilding the binary (ticket #147). This patch introduced "-e" command line option which allows one to override compiled in error log path.
Previously, reusing connections happened silently and was only visible in monitoring systems. This was shown to be not very user-friendly, and administrators often didn't realize there were too few connections available to withstand the load, and configured timeouts (keepalive_timeout and http2_idle_timeout) were effectively reduced to keep things running. To provide at least some information about this, a warning is now logged (at most once per second, to avoid flooding the logs).
The capability is retained automatically in unprivileged worker processes after changing UID if transparent proxying is enabled at least once in nginx configuration. The feature is only available in Linux.
The directive configures a timeout to be used when gracefully shutting down worker processes. When the timer expires, nginx will try to close all the connections currently open to facilitate shutdown.
Closing up to 32 connections might be too aggressive if worker_connections is set to a comparable number (and/or there are only a small number of reusable connections). If an occasional connection shorage happens in such a configuration, it leads to closing all reusable connections instead of gradually reducing keepalive timeout to a smaller value. To improve granularity in such configurations we now close no more than 1/8 of all reusable connections at once. Suggested by Joel Cunningham.
Files are considered the same if the path used by nginx during parsing matches.
The auto/module script is extended to understand ngx_module_link=DYNAMIC. When set, it links the module as a shared object rather than statically into nginx binary. The module can later be loaded using the "load_module" directive. New auto/module parameter ngx_module_order allows to define module loading order in complex cases. By default the order is set based on ngx_module_type. 3rd party modules can be compiled dynamically using the --add-dynamic-module configure option, which will preset ngx_module_link to "DYNAMIC" before calling the module config script. Win32 support is rudimentary, and only works when using MinGW gcc (which is able to handle exports/imports automatically). In collaboration with Ruslan Ermilov.