[zeromq-dev] Assertion failure in pull.cpp

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Alexey Ermakov <zee at technocore.ru> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
>> Any other combinations e.g. XREP<->XREP or XREP<->XREQ must be bridged via code.
>
> Wait a minute, XREQ <-> XREP aren't supposed to be connected to each
> other? So the fact that it's possible and works right now is a bug?

I don't know, and was over-hasty in writing that email.

>From a naive perspective XREQ and XREP have different representations
for the message so aren't compatible.  XREQ sends A and XREQ gives
IDENTITY+A.

But that doesn't make it invalid, just undocumented.

What is a bug (or at least a loophole) is allowing SUB<->SUB,
PUB<->PUB, PUB<->PULL, XREQ<->PULL, etc.

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Pieter Hintjens
iMatix - www.imatix.com