If you can change the class definition, you could use the seldom seen std::enable_shared_from_this.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 BJovke <bjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > You can send a pointer to your shared_ptr and then the receiver should > copy construct (it's not an actual copy but a reference) it's own > shared_ptr from it and forget about this pointer. > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 19:12 Serguei Khasimkhanov <serk...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I have a publisher thread that has a bunch of shared_ptrs to large chunks >> of data. Occasionally I want to share some of those shared_ptrs with >> subscribers (for read-only.) The problem is that ZeroMQ only allows sending >> binary data, not C++ objects. How can I accomplish this? >> >> I was thinking I could allocate a copy of the shared_ptr on the heap, >> then publish a pointer to it, but since I don't know when the subscribers >> are done using that pointer, I don't know when to deallocate it. >> >> - Ser >> _______________________________________________ >> zeromq-dev mailing list >> zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org >> https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org > https://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >
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