[zeromq-dev] How to cancel a timer in zloop

[Bo Xiao]

Hi Pieter,

After looking into the source, I find there is no easy way to add support for removing a timer without breaking current API. A reader is associated with a socket, so we can unregistered reader by calling zloop_cancel (zloop_t *self, void *socket) with a specific socket as parameter. But for a timer, when created and registered in a zloop, there is no handle or something similar returned by any API calls. So my attempt to patch it by adding a similar API like zloop_cancel_timer failed.

Any ideas to maintain compatibility?

Kind regards,

- Bo
mail.xiaobo at gmail.com




On 14 May 2011, at 6:54 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:

> Do you want to try patching zloop to add this? Otherwise I'll do it, it'll take a few days, I'm traveling right now.
> 
> -Pieter
> 
> On 14 May 2011 11:41, "Bo Xiao" <mail.xiaobo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I'm using zeromq c binding czmq master in my project. czmq provide a runloop implementation that's easy to use, but there is no way to cancel a timer registered in a zloop, which is very inconvenient. any ideas to this problem?
> > 
> > thanks in advance.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > - Bo
> > mail.xiaobo at gmail.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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