changeset 1995:80f53da7280c

Updated cancelable event description in the development guide.
author Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
date Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:14:46 +0300
parents effdf0747a05
children 40467656998b
files xml/en/docs/dev/development_guide.xml
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/xml/en/docs/dev/development_guide.xml	Wed Jun 07 19:36:06 2017 +0300
+++ b/xml/en/docs/dev/development_guide.xml	Wed Jun 07 18:14:46 2017 +0300
@@ -2499,11 +2499,10 @@
 </listitem>
 
 <listitem>
-<literal>cancelable</literal> — Timer event flag, used during graceful shutdown
-of nginx workers, to signal that the event handler needs to be called even
-though the event timeout has not yet expired.
-The flag provides a way to finalize certain activities, for example flush log
-files.
+<literal>cancelable</literal> — Timer event flag indicating that the event
+should be ignored while shutting down the worker.
+Graceful worker shutdown is delayed until there are no non-cancelable timer
+events scheduled.
 </listitem>
 
 <listitem>