[module dev] PCRE compiled code lost at reload

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 02:21:51PM +0000, MAGNIEN, Thierry wrote:

> Thanks for your response. I already saw that, and that's why I 
> use a dedicated pool in shared memory for regex compilation. All 
> my ngx_regex_compile_t structs allocate from this unique pool. 
> Could pool in shared memory be automatically freed when 
> reloading ? And in that case, why would new workers get the 
> correct value ? Is there a place where memory is duplicated 
> between workers before dying/start of workers ?

There are no pools in shared memory in nginx - except 
ngx_slab_pool_t, which is quite different from normal memory 
pools and cannot be used in ngx_regex_compile_t.

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Maxim Dounin
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