On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Andrew Hume <[email protected]> wrote:
> what is the preferred mechanism for having threads talk to one another? CZMQ's zthread_fork method does this in a way that seems robust and simple. Parent thread creates two sockets, binds one, connects the other, creates a thread, and passes it one end of the pipe. The child thread can then talk to the parent over the pipe. We use PAIR sockets for that. > the old way was for the main program to do the bind > before spawning threads who do the connect, > and passing that bind socket to teh thread who needs it. Yes, this is the other pattern we use (in the Guide examples): parent creates socket and binds it, then starts child threads, which connect. > the new meme talks about creating sockets within threads > but it is awkward to arrange the bind first. The only complex part is when you want different sub-threads to connect safely; in that case I use the pipe mechanism to signal "ready" from threads, back to the main, before starting further threads. -Pieter _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
