Hi Joshua,

> On 23 Aug 2024, at 1:48 PM, Joshua O'Sullivan <jos...@firetail.io> wrote:
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> We're currently developing a dynamic module which itself loads another shared 
> library, which we've written in Golang. It seems to be a bit off the beaten 
> track - I can't find any guidance in the documentation pertaining to loading 
> shared libraries in dynamic modules, and there's only one example in the wild 
> I can find of this being attempted before - 
> https://github.com/robinmonjo/ngx_http_l?tab=readme-ov-file#issues-encountered.
> 
> We've got a proof-of-concept, however we're struggling with where to store 
> the shared library - keeping it in the main configuration seems to make 
> sense, but calls to `dlopen` in our create or init main configuration 
> functions seem to cause NGINX to hang when it handles requests. We're 
> currently using version 1.24.0.

Indeed you can load a shared library in create_conf or init_conf and store its 
handle in the configuration. Also you need to register a cycle pool cleanup 
handler which would release the library.

Could you please provide a stack trace of nginx when it hangs?

----
Roman Arutyunyan
a...@nginx.com




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