Hello!

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:44:18PM +0800, Han Cheng wrote:

> Hello, Maxim,
>
> As I'm new to nginx, please point out if I'm wrong.
>
> The reason why we should have multiply tries is we may fail when we bind().
> That is because the address and port
> are in use(temporary which caused by unclean close or others, permanent
> like another nginx is using) or others.
>
> In the temporary use case, we may wait and retry. Configurable retry make
> us more probable succeed in that case.

While in theory this may be usefull when, e.g., switching from
other servers to nginx, it's not something expected to happen
during normal operation. Because of this there is no real need to
configure retries - if nginx fails to start because previously
working server isn't stopped in time, administrator will be able
to start nginx again. And if this happens for some reason during
normal operation, probably the problem is anyway fatal and retries
won't help.

--
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/

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