[zeromq-dev] rc == 0 (./zmq/mutex.hpp:94)

[Martin Hurton]

Hi Aamir,

Please apply the attached patch to 0.6.1 tree and let us know what's
printed when the assertion fails.

Regards,
Martin

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Aamir M<aamirjvm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a somewhat large/complex multi-threaded program that makes
> heavy use of 0MQ for both process-scope and network-scope messaging.
> Recently we implemented some changes and started seeing the following
> error:
>
> Success
> rc == 0 (./zmq/mutex.hpp:94)
> Aborted
>
> 0MQ is asserting on ./zmq/mutex.hpp:94 and aborting the program.
> Before the 0MQ assert occurs, some other function is causing the word
> "Success" to be printed onto the screen.
>
> What could be causing this problem? It is proving very difficult to
> debug this error because I have no idea which line triggers the
> problem. Like any other bug related to a multi-threaded race
> condition, the difficultly is compounded by the fact that the error
> only occurs SOME of the time (i.e. it cannot be deterministically
> reproduced).
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to isolate the offending code? When
> does 0MQ use this pthread mutex and how could this assert happen while
> sending / receiving messages?
>
> We have been careful to make sure that threads never share the same
> zmq_api object ... each thread has its own instance of zmq_api, so I
> don't think this could be the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Aamir
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