[zeromq-dev] Communication between two threads

[gonzalo diethelm]

I want to have all communications for my program done over 0MQ running
on a separate thread. This thread has an infinite loop calling poll on
all the sockets I want to read from, and calls different handlers for
incoming messages. The other thread does processing and stuff.

Now, one of the sockets in this poll set is the REQ end of a REQ/REP
pair. I create it within the poll thread, otherwise 0MQ will complain
when trying to poll it. The question now becomes: how do I write to it
from the processing thread?

The only sane answer I can think about is to add another socket to my
poll set, an UPSTREAM inproc socket, and create a DOWNSTREAM inproc
socket in the processing thread. Now, when I want to send something from
the processing thread over the REQ socket, I write that something on the
DOWNSTREAM inproc socket; the UPSTREAM inproc socket in the polling
thread receives the message and stuffs it into the REQ socket. Does this
sound reasonable, or is this overly complex and I am missing a simpler
solution?

Hhmmm... In fact, this idea might be the correct one because I will also
need to pass the reply that I will get on the REQ socket, back to the
processing thread; instead of having something like a condition variable
to synchronize those threads, I could transform the UPSTREAM/DOWNSTREAM
inproc socket pair into another REQ/REP inproc socket pair, and have the
processing thread simply wait for an answer after it writes its request.

I would appreciate your collective thoughts on this problem. Thanks in
advance.

-- 
Gonzalo Diethelm 



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