CVS log for: cow.c

Final cleanups before packaging and releasing.

Allow us to fork multiple processes if we're running out of FD's.  This
will use more memory, but will effectively allow us to have more files
(connections) open at a time.

Keep-alive actually works now.  Major request parsing cleanup.

Lots of changes:
 * Use either buffering code taken from Apache or TCP_CORK to minimize
   network traffic.
 * Sockets are now properly 'half-closed' before being truly closed
 * Make 503 responses a compile time option
 * Make HTTP PUT a compile time option
 * Added -b command line switch to change server's accept backlog
 * Lots of code cleanup
 * More statistics kept for verbose (-v) output

Removed terribly outdated non-pool code.  That code hasn't been maintained
for ages so CoW only really works with a prespawned pool of threads.

TCP_CORK used by default if available; can be disabled by autoconf.

- pth_writev() is used to combine headers with body instead of issuing
  multiple pth_write()'s; this should be faster because it results in
  fewer internal copies of the data
- filename(s) of index files can be set in cow.conf now
- added ability to limit response concurrency

 * can now build against libdmalloc
 * CoW can background itself (and does so by default)
 * fixed minor connection counting bug

- fixed critical bug that caused only the first part (probably about 256K)
  of a file to actually be returned to the user
- CoW was using a pool of pmsg structures for communication between the
  main thread and the depot, but was malloc'ing messages sent from the
  depot to the handlers; messages are now forwarded to handlers instead of
  copied so we avoid the malloc overhead
- CoW now re-uses server socket so we don't have to wait a couple minutes
  after shutdown before restarting (avoids "Address in use" messages)

- added config option to disable TCP Nagle algorithm
- made request.c more lenient in terms of input; also heavily
  cleaned up/commented code

Actual 0.4.0 release
 - incorporate automake build system
 - better config file support
 - a stripped down, patched Pth is included
 - CoW looks for config file in /etc/cow.conf and /usr/local/etc/cow.conf
   now also

 * Added mime options to config file
 * Removed some unused constants
 * A little bit of error logging
 * Better detection of OS file descriptor limits

Many changes:
 - beginning of logging support
 - fix bug in Makefile for config.l.c
 - code reformatting
 - prepare for release (AUTHORS, Changelog, etc.)

Added configuration file support.  Also updated the build system some more.
Although the config file support is in place, not all of its options are
completely supported yet.

Force accept thread to wait if the depot falls behind and has a full message
queue.  This prevents the accept thread from reusing pmsg structures before
the depot has processed them (premature reuse of these structures caused the
same message to be placed on the message queue multiple times which caused
all kinds of internal pth problems).

Also fixed a couple compile-time warnings.

Fixed major depot loop bug that caused CoW to crash on the first request.
Also added lots of comments to the depot and made some more reformatting
changes.

Indentation changes and minor build fix.

Changed indentation style.

Initial import of Takashi's CoW code (version 0.3.2).

Initial revision