[zeromq-dev] non-clean exit - "Context was terminated"

Pieter Hintjens ph at imatix.com
Mon Sep 2 10:42:54 CEST 2013


The message gets printed when you try to set a socket option on a
socket after the thread (or another) has terminated the context. I'm
not sure if printing the message is a good response...  that could be
fixed.

However it's not an error; it's a normal shutdown. One thread
terminates the context and any blocking operation gets ETERM as a
return code.

Your code is perhaps not detecting ETERM properly. Can you post a
minimal case that we can try?

-Pieter

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Chris Laws <clawsicus at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am learning zeromq and have built a small-ish application using czmq that
> generally works well. However, when I shut it down using Ctrl+C, it prints
> "Context was terminated" to standard out. I presume this indicates a
> non-clean exit and I would like to fix this.
>
> I have read the guide section about making a clean exit but still could not
> resolve what appears to be a non-clean exit. I have searched the mailing
> list and my Google-fu wasn't good enough to find an answer.
>
> I think that the problem I'm seeing is related to attached threads. When I
> remove the thread code from my application I don't see the problem.
>
> I have created two small czmq based examples that demonstrate my problem.
> The first is as simple as I can make it. My real application is written
> using the reactor pattern and users a timer to generate the ping message
> instead of a crude sleep. By commenting out the sleep in the first example
> the "Context was terminated" error line is not produced.
>
> The second example is more closely representative of my real application and
> again demonstrates the problem. This example spawns a thread and uses the
> zloop to handle events.
>
> From my investigations it appears that the non-clean shutdown is somehow
> related to attached threads that use inproc sockets. For some reason these
> are not exiting cleanly when the there is any waiting or polling involved
> and the context is destroyed.
>
> Are they any suggestions on how I can shutdown cleanly when using threads
> and the event reactor style?
>
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