Am 20.11.2013 um 09:58 schrieb Chris Laws <[email protected]>: > Many of my system's (CZMQ based) applications are long running, though some > applications within my system come and go. Many applications do various timer > based work when certain applications are present and should not be doing > these timer actions when certain applications are not present. Consequently, > I have a need to be able to cancel certain timers (but not all timers) > throughout the lifetime of my applications without stopping all of the > application timers. > > The current zloop timer implementation makes this difficult for me because it > cancels all timers that match the 'arg'. Typically the 'arg' is the > application context structure containing useful references to application > data and state. In my case it is always the 'arg' and I would think that this > is pretty standard usage too. > > I've submitted pull request #318 (https://github.com/zeromq/czmq/pull/318) to > create a conversation topic regarding the changes contained within, which > change the behaviour such that timers can be cancelled using their timer_id. > I've been using this code successfully for some time now and the > czmq_selftest indicates that there are no leaks. Ideally I'd like this > functionality present in czmq, pending no significant issues, objections or > show stoppers. As Pieter points out, this constitutes an API change. > > This implementation fits well with the event-reactor style applications I > create that typically finalise and terminate upon exit of the event loop. > Perhaps this implementation might not fit so well with other styles? > > Thoughts? Would this type of change help or hinder you?
yes it would help - finer grained control is a definite plus - Michael > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
