[zeromq-dev] question about zmq_poll() with timeout on Windows

[Ivan Pechorin]

Hi

I'm trying to implement a loop with zmq_poll() on a single ZMQ_REP
socket, and non-zero timeout set, and always get the following error:

Assertion failed: Invalid argument (..\..\..\src\zmq.cpp:514)


Here is the minimal piece of code to reproduce the problem:

#include <zmq.hpp>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    int rc;
    zmq::context_t ctx(1, 1, ZMQ_POLL);
    zmq::socket_t s(ctx, ZMQ_REP);
    s.bind("tcp://192.168.1.99:5555");
    zmq::pollitem_t items[1];
    while(1) {
        items[0].socket  = s;
        items[0].fd      = -1;
        items[0].events  = ZMQ_POLLIN;
        items[0].revents = 0;
        rc = zmq_poll(items, 1, 30000000);
        assert(rc != -1);
    }
    return 0;
}

Tried to debug it. It looks like the problem happens when zmq_poll()
is called second time (i.e. second iteration of my loop): the select()
function of Winsock is called with all three descriptor parameters
being null in zmq.cpp:511, hence we get WSAEINVAL (translated into
"Invalid argument" by wsa_assert).

Could you please tell me, what's wrong with my code, provided above?

P.S. I use Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on 32-bit Windows Server 2003.

Best regards, Ivan