On Jul 6, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Martin Lucina wrote:
> Hi all, > > while implementing a 0MQ architecture which needs to dynamically > create and > destroy sockets during operation I ran into the current behaviour of > zmq_close() being semantically different from the standard close() > system > call. > > Consider a scenario where we wish to send a bunch of messages, then > close > the socket: > > zmq_send (s, ...) > zmq_send (s, ...) > zmq_send (s, ...) > zmq_close (s) > > The current behaviour is that zmq_close() will discard any messages > which > have been queued ("sent") with zmq_send() but have not yet been > pushed out > to the network. Contrast this with the behaviour of the close() > system call > on a standard socket where the call means "please make this socket > go away, > but finish sending any outstanding data on it asynchronously if you > can"[1]. > > In my opinion the proper solution is to use the same semantics as the > close() system call, in other words, zmq_close() shall invalidate the > socket from the caller's point of view so no further operations may be > performed on it, but 0MQ shall send any outstanding messages in the > background *as long as a endpoint for those messages still exists* > before > destroying the socket "for real". > Would this be logical to implement as a new zmq_setsockopt() option? > This would mean a second change to the API which would make > zmq_term() a > blocking call, since it would need to wait until all outstanding > messages > are sent. The analogous functionality for the close() system call is > handled by the OS kernel -- obviously if the OS shuts down then data > will > be lost. And I'm looking for a way to dynamically change the number of concurrent user threads available for a context, so maybe it's time for zmq_setcontextopt()? ;-) > > The downside is that zmq_term() could freeze for an arbitrary amount > of > time if the remote end is "stuck". For applications where this is > undesirable it would mean adding a "KILL" flag or separate > zmq_term_kill() > function which means "we don't care, really go away now". > > Please let me know your opinions on this change; ultimately I think > it's > the right way to go especially if OS integration of 0MQ sockets is > (a long > way) down the road. > > -mato > > [1] This behaviour can be changed using the SO_LINGER option, we'd > probably > want to implement a similar option for 0MQ sockets. > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev