On 08/28/2010 02:41 PM, Naveen Chawla wrote: > In REQ/REP, if there's no server, the calling application blocks forever, > right? > > It's unacceptable of course, so briefly what are the ways around this? > (e.g. I could have a dummy server always available and running that > gives a guaranteed but delayed response to the request?) > > What's the best way? (I want either a reply or knowledge of "no > server" before my client does anything more).
Use zmq_poll to poll for the reply. There's a timout argument there. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
