[zeromq-dev] Not blocking forever when waiting for response

[Doron Somech]

Take a look at the lazy pirate example from the guide, it is exactly for
that.
Anyway, for that reason using REQ socket is not recommended, it is better
to use dealer-router or even better, client-server.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Douglas Petican <dpetican at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just went through a sorta code review today and got asked the question:
> what happens if Y module doesn't respond to X modules request?  My answer
> was: then I coded Y module wrong because the contract is that a request
> always gets a reply.  Then I started to think.... wait a sec what happens
> if the modules are located on different hosts and the link between them
> goes down after the request is made?  Then surely the response would block
> forever.
>
> I haven't tried it yet but I'm thinking that I need to use poll() with a
> timeout and wait only so long for the POLLIN event. Then that means its
> okay to actually receive the message.  is that the way to do it?  Thanks.
>
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