[zeromq-dev] Idea: Create sockets from existing FD

[Michael Haberler]

Am 01.02.2014 um 13:32 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been thinking of using zmq for a little daemon. But I also want
> to support systemd socket activation. Now those two combined make a
> problem.
> 
> ZMQ has no way to create a zmq socket given an existing FD. And socket
> activation opens the sockets outside the programm and passes them in
> when the program is started.
> 
> Would it be insane to have e.g.:
> 
> void *zmq_socket_from_fd(void *context, int type, int fd, bool bound);

no, very sane - I like it too.

I dont have immediate use for it: however, in my scenario zeroMQ becomes the Swiss Knife for plumbing components together, and if it aint for me it might help somebody else.

- Michael

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> 
> Context and type are clear I hope. The fd would be the the file
> descriptor that is already opened and bound would say wether the
> socket is one that was bind()ed or one that was accept()ed/connect()ed.
> 
> 
> This feature would also allow 2 additional use cases:
> 
> 1) restarting without loosing connections (no messages dropped during
>   restart)
> 
> 2) handling stdin / stdout
>   Note: Would that need an additional flag to say wether the
>         socket should allow reads or writes.
> 
> MfG
> 	Goswin
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