This patch, salvaged from a trainwreck accidental merge earlier, adds a
new sockopt, ZMQ_DELAY_ATTACH_ON_CONNECT which prevents a end point
being available to push messages to until it has fully connected, making
connect work more like bind. This also applies to reconnecting sockets,
which may cause message loss of in-queue messages, so it is sensible to
use this in conjunction with a low HWM and potentially an alternative
acknowledgement path.
Notes on most of the individual commits can be found the repository log.
It didn't seem straightforward to use any of the existing process calls, so I have added a new command to command_t and friends called detach. This instructs the socket_base to remove the pipe from it's pipe list. The session base stores a copy of the outpipe, and will resend the bind command on reconnection. This should allow balancing again.
This patch adds a sockopt ZMQ_DELAY_ATTACH_ON_CONNECT, which if set to 1 will attempt to preempt this behavior. It does this by extending the use of the session_base to include in the outbound as well as the inbound pipe, and only associates the pipe with the socket once it receives the connected callback via a process_attach message. This works, and a test has been added to show so, but may introduce unexpected complications. The shutdown logic in this class has become marginally more awkward because of this, requiring the session to serve as the sink for both pipes if shutdown occurs with a still-connecting pipe in place. It is also possible there could be issues around flushing the messages, but as I could not directly think how to create such an issue I have not written any code with regards to that.
The documentation has been updated to reflect the change, but please do check over the code and test and review.