Hi Erik, It's a good question and not specified in the man page. Perhaps you'd like to add something to doc/zmq_ipc.txt to make it clearer?
-Pieter On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Erik Haller <[email protected]> wrote: > Can 1 zmq_socket (REP/ROUTER) serve one ipc:///<some file path> for > multiple processes on Linux? Won't the input/output be spliced? > > It appears that it can. zeromq3 uses AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM as the ipc:// > resource as defined in ipc_listener.cpp. Therefore, one zmq_socket can > support multiple processes. > > ipc is such a general term. The documentation does not indicate the form > of ipc. > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev -- - Pieter Hintjens CEO of iMatix.com Founder of ZeroMQ community blog: http://hintjens.com _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
