[zeromq-dev] behavior of zmq_term in 2.1.0

[Martin Sustrik]

On 11/27/2010 10:24 PM, Chuck Remes wrote:
> This blocking behavior was raised as an issue in #85.
>
> https://github.com/zeromq/zeromq2/issues#issue/85
>
> That ticket hasn't been updated, but the discussion did include references to SO_LINGER which I see has been implemented (and documented) as the ZMQ_LINGER socket option. Since the unwanted behavior (packets dropped when zmq_term() is called) has been solved by the addition of ZMQ_LINGER, can we now consider the blocking behavior of zmq_term() to be a bug?
>    
No. It's the only way to achieve the "don't drop the packets on exit" 
behaviour I can imagine. Except for moving 0MQ into kernel space, of course.

Martin