[zeromq-dev] Signal handling in blocking zmq_recv

Chris Wong chris at chriswongstudio.com
Tue Mar 9 19:46:27 CET 2010


Martin, thanks for the pointer to the zmq-camera example.  It handles SIGINT/SIGQUIT etc by exiting the process.  If I want to interrupt all the blocked zmq_recv calls when receiving a SIGINT, how would you suggest me approaching this problem?  zmq_recv seems to be blocked forever.

I tool a brief look at Ruby's socket API implementation.  It's calling select before calling recvfrom.  I suspect that the default signal handler was overridden by Ruby's runtime.  If I install a ruby-level signal handler and can in turn interrupt all the blocked zmq_recv, that may be a solution.  With that approach, I won't be mucking around with Ruby's internal signal handler.   Seems better to me I should integrate with the Ruby's sig handler system instead of doing this at the C level.

Thoughts?

Chris
P.S.: this approach may apply similarly with Python's.


On Mar 8, 2010, at 1:29 AM, Martin Sustrik wrote:

> Brian,
> 
>> Do you have a sense of what a proper signal handler would do?
> 
> I wasn't solving the problem myself. Mato Lucina will give you more proper info.
> 
> However, AFAIU, Python (Ruby) should block all the signals on its thread(s) and create a separate thread to call sigwait occasionally to check for the signals.
> 
> See the implemetation example here:
> 
> http://github.com/mato/zeromq-examples/blob/master/zmq-camera.c
> 
> Martin




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