Why would it even wait? The socket can catch the eterm flag at any point, it is asynchronous between the two threads.
- Pieter On 2 Dec 2010 20:50, "Martin Sustrik" <sust...@250bpm.com> wrote: > Hi Pieter, > >> If sockets are not in a critical section, can zmq_term not perform >> single-bit changes safely anyhow? > > Right. That would basically mean implementing a spin-lock in the user > space. zmq_term thread spins while the socket thread is in a 0MQ call. > When socket thread exits the function, the zmq_term thread sets a > "terminated" flag and proceeds with flushing the messages from the socket. > > The question is whether such a spin-lock would be any faster when > compared to standard mutex. > > Martin >
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