[zeromq-dev] ZMTP/1.1 - proposal

[Ian Barber]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Fabien Ninoles
<fabien.ninoles at ubisoft.com>wrote:

> We can enter a bug stating that ZMQ 2.1 will crash when connected with
> 2.2/3.0 sockets.  Couldn't we consider forward incompatibility as a bug ?
>
> Otherwise, we could wait and see if the change really break 2.1.  I don't
> think any 2.1 sockets would break on new flags, and if we can introduce the
> new control command without breaking the old sockets pattern, that would be
> even better.
>
> Fabien
>

I think as a general rule we shouldn't be able to crash 0MQ sockets with
external input - if it can that should be filed as a bug in the branch the
crash occurs. If the outcome is that we can't interop I think that is
reasonable.

Ian
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