On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:27:32 +0100 Marten Feldtmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> -> thread safe socket > > I'm not on a level as the other people on this list are, but I only > would like to be able to use creation/closing-socket-calls also be > possible from another thread (not acually using the socket). Is ths > possible - on all platforms ? Context creation and destruction [zmq_init(), zmq_term()] - yes. Socket creation [zmq_socket()] - yes. Socket close [zmq_close()], and any other operation on an existing socket - no. In other words, you can safely create a socket in thread A, then do a pthread_create (socket) and start using it in thread B. You can destroy the socket's context from any thread, and any in-progress or subsequent socket calls on that context will get errno=ETERM back. The context is only deallocated once you zmq_close() all sockets in it. After that, any further calls on that context are undefined (i.e. segfault or possibly EFAULT if you're lucky). For more details see the manpages or http://api.zeromq.org/. > Actually I like the way zeromq is done. The few API calls and the > external thread sending and receiving. Thanks :-) -mato -- Martin Lucina <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
