launching a user thread from a module

Hello, I'd like to spawn a single custom thread as a part of my nginx module. The idea is that it can be used to perform some periodic tasks, asynchronously and independently from HTTP requests. (In other words, I use nginx/module as a framework.) And here I faced with a problem: when I launch my

Re: init module callback called twice

Thanks Maxim, this makes perfect sense! However the part of the question still stands: is there a way from ngx_cycle_t structure or from some global structure to figure out in which mode nginx is running - testing the configuration or actually starting? Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.

init module callback called twice

Hello, I'm developing a little custom module for nginx, and I need to execute some user code once my module is loaded. I do this by attaching to the hook in ngx_module_t structure: ngx_module_t ngx_http_hello_world_module = { ... NULL, /* init master */ i