[zeromq-dev] zmq-socket name aliases

Brian Granger ellisonbg at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 05:20:39 CEST 2010


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Oliver Smith <oliver at kfs.org> wrote:

> 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....
>

Yes, but I don't tell them that initially or heads will explore :)

Brian


>
> - Oliver
>
>


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Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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