zmq_ppoll mostly mimics zmq_poll behavior, except for the added feature of being able to specify a signal mask. Signals in this mask will be blocked during execution of zmq_ppoll. Switching of the process' active signal mask happens atomically with the actual poll call, so that no race conditions can occur. This behavior is useful when one wants to gracefully handle POSIX signals without race conditions. See e.g. the discussion below https://250bpm.com/blog:12/ for an explanation.
Also includes two new tests:
1. test_zmq_ppoll_fd does the same thing as test_zmq_poll_fd, demonstrating backwards compatibility with zmq_poll when used with a default signal mask.
2. test_zmq_ppoll_signals demonstrates the use of zmq_ppoll with a signal mask, blocking out SIGTERM everywhere except in zmq_ppoll, allowing to handle the signal in one place without having to worry about race conditions.
This is important in order to send the login sequence of a client to the server.
Solution: add ZMQ_HICCUP_MSG to a socket, socket would send that message whenever a connection get temporarly disconnected
Solution: move all corpora to the zeromq/libzmq-fuzz-corpora repository
for easier handling, and to avoid inflating the size of zeromq/libzmq.
Clone it for the CI on the fly.
Solution: port the 2 new tests from oss-fuzz, and wire them up to
be ran manually with a static input in normal builds.
Add a specific configure option to use the external fuzzing engine
from oss-fuzz.
ZMQ_ROUTER_NOTIFY doesn't have a context and doesn't play nice with protocols. with ZMQ_DISCONNECT_MSG we can set it to a protocol message, like DISCONNECT in majordomo. Router will send it when a peer is disconnected. Another advantage of ZMQ_DISCONNECT_MSG is that it also works on inproc.
Together with ZMQ_HEARTBEAT it allows to build very reliable protocols, and much simpler as well.
When using ZMQ_HEARTBEAT one still needs to implement application-level heartbeat in order to know when to send a hello message.
For example, with the majordomo protocol, the worker needs to send a READY message when connecting to a broker. If the connection to the broker drops, and the heartbeat recognizes it the worker won't know about it and won't send the READY msg.
To solve that, the majordomo worker still has to implement heartbeat. With this new option, whenever the connection drops and reconnects the hello message will be sent, greatly simplify the majordomo protocol, as now READY and HEARTBEAT can be handled by zeromq.
Solution: a new socket type, called PEER. Very similar to SERVER, but can only connect to other PEERs. Also a new zmq_connect_peer method, that connect and return a routing-id in thread-safe and atomic operation
Solution: if all peers of a socket are >= 3.1 use sub/cancel commands
instead of the old 0/1 messages.
For backward compatibility, move the handling of 0/1 or sub/cancel
command strings to the encoders, so that the right thing can be done
depending on the protocol version.
Do not set the command flag until the encoder, so that we can handle
the inproc case (which skips the encoder).
Solution: use libbsd by default when available, and the internal implementation
only as a fallback, to take advantage of Linux distros maintenance of the
string libraries.
