[zeromq-dev] Using ZMQ_FD with select

[Yi Ding]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Yi Ding <yi.s.ding at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Schmurfy <schmurfy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a strange problem related to using the file descriptor with an event
>> loop which led me to do some testing with it  in C but there is still
>> something I cannot figure out.
>>
>> I created a simple client and server, the client (req.c) sends a request and
>> wait for an answer while the server just sends back what was received, my
>> problem is that the client (req.c) always timeout while doing a select on
>> the file descriptor and I cannot figure out what is wrong in my code.
>>
>> Another thing that bother me is that the file descriptor is edge-triggered
>> as specified in the documentation but what happens if I "miss" the change ?
>> I am not sure if this is possible but let's say I was doing something else
>> when the data was receiving, if I do a select after will it block forever ?
>>
>> Here is my code (I used czmq to make the code easier to write and read, I
>> used zeromq 3.1 for this test): https://gist.github.com/1859646
>>
>> Thanks for any answer I hate when I don't understand something ^^
>>
>
> I've run into this exact issue Julien.  The advice I've gotten is to
> always call recv after send prior to calling select.  I find it
> counterintuitive, but that's the way the devs have said it should be
> done.
>
> I don't think it's possible to miss a change, as long as you've called
> recv the exact right number of times. (don't call recv again after
> successfully recv'ing a message, unless you're looking to get a EFSM,
> no matter what people on the list might say)  The edge triggering will
> remain valid as long as you don't select on it.

Btw, this exact issue gave me so much trouble that I ended up just
switching from REP-REQ to PUSH-PULL.