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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2013-11-06 22:40:54 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2013-11-06 23:03:12 +0100
commit8569a77629949b7818d00eba8eea1d05e2d1fc32 (patch)
tree0f807b151ed4649032012084c83a8ed95669e8ca /man/systemd-socket-proxyd.xml
parent175a3d25d0e8596d4ba0759aea3f89ee228e7d6d (diff)
socket-proxyd: rework to support multiple sockets and splice()-based zero-copy network IO
This also drops --ignore-env, which can't really work anymore if we allow multiple fds. Also adds support for pretty printing of peer identities for debug purposes, and abstract namespace UNIX sockets. Also ensures that we never take more connections than a certain limit.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd-socket-proxyd.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/systemd-socket-proxyd.xml70
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-socket-proxyd.xml b/man/systemd-socket-proxyd.xml
index d17c86e479..fcf4aafd60 100644
--- a/man/systemd-socket-proxyd.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-socket-proxyd.xml
@@ -39,19 +39,17 @@
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd-socket-proxyd</refname>
- <refpurpose>Inherit a socket. Bidirectionally
- proxy.</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Bidirectionally proxy local sockets to another (possibly remote) socket.</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>systemd-socket-proxyd</command>
- <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
- <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>HOSTNAME-OR-IPADDR</replaceable></arg>
- <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>PORT-OR-SERVICE</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>OPTIONS</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>HOST</replaceable>:<replaceable>PORT</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>systemd-socket-proxyd</command>
- <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>OPTIONS</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>UNIX-DOMAIN-SOCKET-PATH</replaceable>
</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
@@ -59,13 +57,20 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
- <command>systemd-socket-proxyd</command> provides a proxy
- to socket-activate services that do not yet support
- native socket activation. On behalf of the daemon,
- the proxy inherits the socket from systemd, accepts
- each client connection, opens a connection to the server
- for each client, and then bidirectionally forwards
- data between the two.</para>
+ <command>systemd-socket-proxyd</command> is a generic
+ socket-activated network socket forwarder proxy daemon
+ for IPV4, IPv6 and UNIX stream sockets. It may be used
+ to bi-directionally forward traffic from a local listening socket to a
+ local or remote destination socket.</para>
+
+ <para>One use of this tool is to provide
+ socket-activation support for services that do not
+ natively support socket activation. On behalf of the
+ service to activate, the proxy inherits the socket
+ from systemd, accepts each client connection, opens a
+ connection to a configured server for each client, and
+ then bidirectionally forwards data between the
+ two.</para>
<para>This utility's behavior is similar to
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>socat</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
The main differences for <command>systemd-socket-proxyd</command>
@@ -93,19 +98,6 @@
string and exits.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--ignore-env</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Skips verification of
- the expected PID and file
- descriptor numbers. Use this if
- invoked indirectly, for
- example, with a shell script
- rather than with
- <option>ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-socket-proxyd</option>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -205,7 +197,7 @@ while [ ! -f /tmp/nginx.pid ]
do
/usr/bin/inotifywait /tmp/nginx.pid
done
-/usr/bin/systemd-socket-proxyd --ignore-env localhost 8080]]>
+exec /usr/bin/systemd-socket-proxyd localhost 8080]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
<example label="nginx configuration">
@@ -232,23 +224,11 @@ $ curl http://localhost:80/]]>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>
- systemd.service</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>
- systemd.socket</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>socat</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry></para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>socat</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>