[zeromq-dev] Windows and PGM

[Jon Dyte]

gonzalo diethelm wrote:
>>> Maybe starting with zmq_device call that would do the loop and never
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>> exit
>>     
>>> would be the easiest. It's ugly and won't work for python, but at
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> least
>   
>> it
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>>> would further the issue a bit.
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>> Yes, this makes sense.  Once it is working, it won't be too difficult
>> to put the device event loop into a thread and provide a start/stop
>> API.
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>
> One thing I am doing now is to add an inproc socket to all of the "real
> work" sockets I am using. The separate socket polling thread also polls
> for this inproc socket and reads "commands" from it: pause, continue,
> stop. I am sending a single char (P, C, S) in each case. This could also
> become a standard way of making this loop stop whenever needed.
>
> Note: pause / continue are useful to me because I must read data from a
> DB and make sure that data has been read before I start processing
> messages. 0MQ's inproc sockets make this thread synchronization easy and
> inexpensive.
>
>   
I've been thinking along similar lines :-

every 'device' could contain an inproc 'control' socket for control 
messages such as
start/stop/pause/resume



jon