[zeromq-dev] zmq_socket and threads

[Joshua Foster]

It should be fine if you create a socket to pass to the thread for the 
exclusive access by the thread.

Joshua

> Nishant Mittal <mailto:nmittal at rblt.com>
> Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:08 PM
> Joshua, if you read my first msg in this thread you'll see that its 
> guaranteed by application logic.. 5 threads at a time.. 5 different 
> sockets.. each thread only uses its own socket... the only issue i 
> wanted to check was that the sockets were not created "by the thread" 
> thats going to use them .. which the guide discourages..
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> Charles Remes <mailto:lists at chuckremes.com>
> Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:19 PM
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> This is answered quite thoroughly in the FAQ.
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> http://www.zeromq.org/area:faq
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> Nishant Mittal <mailto:nmittal at rblt.com>
> Wednesday, January 02, 2013 4:23 PM
> I know that zmq_sockets are not thread safe. however, is it an issue 
> if I ensure a socket is used ONLY by 1 thread at a time?
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> the reason is ...
> 1) my application creates 5 threads, does some calcs and then the 
> threads exit
> 2) this is done every minute. so every minute 5 new threads are created.
> 3) I think i will run into a file descriptor issue if i create sockets 
> inside the thread (every time the thread is launched). so planning to 
> create 5 sockets when my application starts and then use 1 socket from 
> 1 thread.
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> is this going to be an issue?
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> thanks
> Nishant
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