What is the NetMQ equivalent of zthread_fork?

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I want to implement an Out-of-Band-Snapshot using NetMQ. zeroMQ (ØMQ) describes this concept in "Chapter 5 - Advanced Pub-Sub Patterns" in the section "Getting-an-Out-of-Band-Snapshot". There are also examples of a server realizing this pattern in C and Java.

What is the NetMQ equivalent for C's zthread_fork() function or Java's ZThread.fork() method?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 22 '16 at 16:20

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zthread_fork is the portable API of CZMQ to creating threads. Also zthread is obsolete and czmq now encourage zactor.

Anyway NetMQ has NetMQActor which is port of zactor.

To just use zthread_fork you can create a pair of pair socket, give one end to the thread and you have zthread_fork. Something like this:

var pipe = context.CreatePairSocket();
pipe.Bind("inproc://socket-pair");

var threadPipe = context.CreatePairSocket();
threadPipe.Connect("inproc://socket-pair");

Thread thread = new Thread(Run);
thread.Start(threadPipe);

edited Jan 22 '16 at 16:20

Beachwalker

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answered Jan 21 '16 at 18:59

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thank you! what is the socket to use for sending data into the thread? threadPipe, right? – Beachwalker Jan 22 '16 at 16:05
no, use the pipe, the thread pipe is for the thread. You can see I provide it as parameter to the Run method. – somdoron Jan 22 '16 at 23:52
ah, obviously... the threadPipe is passed into the thread and pipe is outside... my bad, head first before writing – Beachwalker Feb 06 '16 at 11:48

What is the NetMQ equivalent of zthread_fork?

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