We discussed in our team to use zero-length messages. We found out, that
C++ API cppzmq has a problem. In send/recv it is not possible to differ
between an empty or no message, if ZMQ_DONTWAIT is used.
An example, which fails if zero-length messages are used:
char buffer[8];
while(socket.recv(buffer, sizeof(buffer), ZMQ_DONTWAIT) >= 0)
{std::cout << "received a message" << std::endl;}
std::cout << "never reached" << std::endl;
I propose to return a negativ value and not zero ([1]), if no message
was received (or send).
Best regards
Christian Kögler
[1] https://github.com/zeromq/cppzmq/blob/master/zmq.hpp#L392
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