I like the idea and was wondering myself if/how ZeroMQ could be used with systemd socket activation.
On 02/01/2014 04:32 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > I've been thinking of using zmq for a little daemon. But I also want > to support systemd socket activation. Now those two combined make a > problem. > > ZMQ has no way to create a zmq socket given an existing FD. And socket > activation opens the sockets outside the programm and passes them in > when the program is started. > > Would it be insane to have e.g.: > > void *zmq_socket_from_fd(void *context, int type, int fd, bool bound); > > Context and type are clear I hope. The fd would be the the file > descriptor that is already opened and bound would say wether the > socket is one that was bind()ed or one that was accept()ed/connect()ed. > > > This feature would also allow 2 additional use cases: > > 1) restarting without loosing connections (no messages dropped during > restart) > > 2) handling stdin / stdout > Note: Would that need an additional flag to say wether the > socket should allow reads or writes. > > MfG > Goswin > _______________________________________________ > 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
