[zeromq-dev] C++ assertion failed with Java client

[Martin Lucina]

skaller at users.sourceforge.net said:
> 
> On 02/02/2012, at 10:18 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Kishore Kopalle <kkopalle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I am receiving the following errors when I try to work in a multi-threaded
> >> environment (10 threads) where ZeroMQ is used to send/receive messages
> > 
> > You are using 0MQ sockets from multiple threads? That will crash.
> 
> 
> Q: is it technically feasible to make a thread-safe wrapper around 0MQ sockets?

Sure, chuck a bunch of locks around socket-related calls? A mutex implies a
full memory barrier, so things should work OK at least on cache-coherent
architectures.

Performance will take a nose-dive of course, but if that is not a concern,
go for it ...

-mato