[zeromq-dev] Perl question: ZMQ + AnyEvent

[Pedro Melo]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Robert Olson <olson at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Sep 21, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Robert Olson wrote:
>> However, in my client, if I set up AnyEvent to wait for the reply from the broker I am never notified. The client works perfectly if I use a synchronous receive on the socket.
>
> Interesting: in the async code if I issue a nonblocking recv() before I drop into the AnyEvent wait code, it works properly. Is this the expected behavior?

My gut felling when I read your code was that it was correct, it would
be the code I would write in this situation. Adding that nonblocking
read seems to be clearing some flag that signals the socket as
"nothing more to read at the moment" but I don't remember the
existence of such a flag…

I would do one thing though: move from ZeroMQ binding to the new ZMQ
bindings. The second ones are written as a direct map to the C API
(like ZeroMQ::Raw) but are supported, where as ZeroMQ has several open
bugs without answers. One particular problem is with ZeroMQ and
fork's, you'll get a libzmq assertion. Fixed in ZMQ.

Bye,
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