[zeromq-dev] HWM ignored on inproc connection

[Douglas Creager]

>> Please, do check whether everyting works as expected.
> 
> Hm, presumably, some more patching is needed to cover the cases when one 
> or both hwms/swaps is infinite. Can you possibly do that?

I tried this patch out, and it works as expected.  For infinite HWMs, I think it works, depending on what we want the behavior to be.  If one side has a finite HWM, and the other an infinite, and we want the finite one to take precedence, then it works: X+0 = X.  And two infinite HWMs stay infinite: 0+0=0.

That said, the more I think about this, the more I'm not sure about it.  With this patch in place, a PULL inproc socket can affect the HWM buffer that's seen by the PUSH socket on the other side.  For a TCP connection, it can't: there's an HWM buffer on the PULL side, but since it's a PULL socket, it's ignored.  And I don't think that's something that breaking HWM into SNDHWM/RCVHWM would fix, because the PULL socket could still affect the PUSH's SNDHWM by setting its RCVHWM.  Am I missing something obvious?  Or does the processing need to be aware of the socket types being connected to do the right thing?

–doug

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