You could previously do this with evbuffer_peek() and some memcpys,
but it was a bit more work than most folks wanted to get into.
Closes sourceforge ticket 3108072
Applies the function specified in the first argument to all
evhttp_bound_sockets associated with a struct evhttp. The user
must not attempt to free or remove any connections, sockets or
listeners in the callback function.
This function is particularly useful for selectively increasing
the accuracy of the cached time value in 'base' during callbacks
that take a long time to execute.
This function has no effect if the base is currently not in its
event loop or if timeval caching is disabled via EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NO_CACHE_TIME.
The sendfile() implementation for evbuffer_add_file is potentially more
efficient, but it has a problem: you can only use it to send bytes over
a socket using sendfile(). If you are writing bytes via SSL_send() or
via a filter, or if you need to be able to inspect your buffer, it
doesn't work.
As an easy fix, this patch disables the sendfile-based implementation of
evbuffer_add_file on an evbuffer unless the user sets a new
EVBUFFER_FLAG_DRAINS_TO_FD flag on that evbuffer, indicating that the
evbuffer will not be inspected, but only written out via
evbuffer_write(), evbuffer_write_atmost(), or drained with stuff like
evbuffer_drain() or evbuffer_add_buffer(). This flag is off by
default, except for evbuffers used for output on bufferevent_socket.
In the future, it could be interesting to make a best-effort file
segment implementation that tries to send via sendfile, but mmaps on
demand. That's too much complexity for a stable release series, though.
Some hosts require you to define certain options to get a large off_t
instead of a small one, to get useful ftell and fseek calls instead of
ones that can only support 2GB files, and so on. This patch makes
Libevent support those platforms by:
* Defining the right options when we build, and
* Changing our API so that it does not depend on the platform's
definition of off_t.
Based on discusion with Michael Herf
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3078187&group_id=50884&atid=461324
The problem is that bufferevent_disable() doesn't disable EV_WRITE
when 'connecting' flag is set. However from evhttp_connection_reset()
we want to disable EV_WRITE for sure (we are closing the socket next).
So we add bufferevent_disable_hard(), which acts like
bufferevent_disable(), but resets 'connecting' flag before the call to
the actual handler.
TODO: bufferevent_disable_hard() shouldn't be public, remove it from
event2/bufferevent.h.
