[zeromq-dev] Non-contiguous message thoughts

[Michael Santy]

On 3/8/10 1:15 AM, "Martin Sustrik" <sustrik at 250bpm.com> wrote:

> 
> Example of an application receiving messages consisting of two pieces:
> 
> while (true) {
>      zmq_recv (s, &msg1, 0);
>      zmq_recv (s, &msg2, 0);
>      process_it (msg1, msg2);
> }

So am I correct in assuming the application would have to know whether the
message is multi-part by parsing the message data?  If so, I could see this
being a bit cumbersome.  Does it make more sense to add a field to zmq_msg_t
to indicate whether the received message is the last of a group?