[zeromq-dev] Dropping connection end points dynamically

[Radha Krishna Srimanthula]

Thanks Ian/ Chuck!

I might have to go the mutex way - the connection end points need to be
managed dynamically.

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Regards,
Radha



On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Chuck Remes <lists at chuckremes.com> wrote:

> On Apr 18, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Radha Krishna Srimanthula wrote:
>
> > Can you please help me with my first qn?
> >
> > Just to restate - would it be ok to create a socket in a main thread -
> only once, perform subscriptions/ unsubscriptions in another, and perform
> sends on the yet another thread?
>
> Use a mutex to protect the sockets. The main problem is that sockets
> aren't thread safe, so if you make any calls on them simultaneously from
> those 3 threads, bad things will eventually happen. If you use a mutex to
> guarantee that only one thread is accessing a particular socket at a time,
> then you will be safe.
>
> cr
>
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