Troy, > recv is not expected to fail if the server that has bound to the > endpoint dies? The only way to for the client to detect that situation > is by using poll with a timeout? This is not the behaviour that I would > have expected and so I spent the last two days reading the > documentation, experimenting and endlessly searching the devlist > archives trying to find out what I was doing wrong. :-)
Feel free to submit a documentation patch. Maybe mentioning the reconnect semantics in zmq_connect(3)? > I think you are saying that I would have to write my client code like > this: > > send the request to the XREP server > poll the REP socket with a timeout > if event from REP socket > recv the response from the server > else if timeout > handle the failure of the request and get ready to send another > request > > Is that right? Yes. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
