On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Ricardo Iramar dos Santos <rira...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is my first post so take easy on me. :) > I'm doing a security research about HTTP(S) web servers and I'm trying > to understand a little bit of nginx source code. > In my research I need to understand how the function ngx_execute_proc > works and in which use cases this function is invoked. > I tried to read the source code to understand but I'm not familiar > with nginx source code and there's no much comments on it. > I tried to find a specific material about the source code using google > or the resource pages but I couldn't find. > Is there any material that I can read and get a better understand of > how ngx_execute_proc works and in which use cases this function is > invoked? > > Thanks in advanced! > Ricardo Iramar > > _______________________________________________ > nginx-devel mailing list > nginx-devel@nginx.org > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx-devel
AFAIK, ngx_execute_proc usage is limited to new binary swap (upgrading nginx binary.) See ngx_exec_new_binary() which will eventually invoke ngx_execute_proc() which is a wrapper over execve. For more info: http://wiki.nginx.org/CommandLine#Upgrading_To_a_New_Binary_On_The_Fly _______________________________________________ nginx-devel mailing list nginx-devel@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx-devel
