[zeromq-dev] Async replies?

Martin Sustrik sustrik at fastmq.com
Sat Oct 24 17:45:17 CEST 2009


Hi Conrad,

> What I mean by async replies is simply replying to messages sent by a
> REQ application to a REP application in a different order than received,
> or sending a message REP -> REQ without receiving a request first.
> 
> Looking at src/rep.cpp it seems like it should be possible to do this by
> keeping track of the relevant "reply_pipe".

How so? If there's no request, how would you know who to send the 
unsolicited reply to?

Martin



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