[zeromq-dev] zmq-socket name aliases

Oliver Smith oliver at kfs.org
Wed Jul 28 05:17:38 CEST 2010


On 7/27/2010 1:03 PM, Brian Granger wrote:
> I completely agree that most people will want to use the canonical 
> directions, but I do think it is misleading to hide the fact that the 
> choice of bind/connect is completely independent of the socket type. 
>  When people ask me if a socket should bind or connect, I tell them 
> that the decision to bind/connect is independent of the socket type 
> and that if you want a socket to have multiple peers, it should bind, 
> a single peer, it should connect.
But you can connect() to multiple peers....

- Oliver




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