From 13f3481e127a6b2390e847af6b01ee88f1b4ae61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pieter Hintjens Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:05:25 +0200 Subject: Further cleanups on reference manual - fixed unwrapped text in new man pages - fixed over-long lines in older pages, where possible - removed reference to old standalong devices from index page - added refernce to new zmq_device[3] documented from index page - some minor spelling corrections --- doc/zmq.txt | 22 ++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/zmq.txt') diff --git a/doc/zmq.txt b/doc/zmq.txt index e8a3a97..0ff26e7 100644 --- a/doc/zmq.txt +++ b/doc/zmq.txt @@ -140,20 +140,14 @@ Local in-process (inter-thread) communication transport:: Devices ~~~~~~~ -Apart from the 0MQ library the 0MQ distribution includes 'devices' which are -building blocks intended to serve as intermediate nodes in complex messaging -topologies. - -The following devices are provided: - -Forwarder device for request-response messaging:: - linkzmq:zmq_queue[1] - -Forwarder device for publish-subscribe messaging:: - linkzmq:zmq_forwarder[1] - -Streamer device for parallelized pipeline messaging:: - linkzmq:zmq_streamer[1] +0MQ provides 'devices', which are building blocks that act as intermediate +nodes in complex messaging topologies. Devices can act as brokers that other +nodes connect to, proxies that connect through to other nodes, or any mix of +these two models. + +You can start a device in an application thread, see linkzmq:zmq_device[3], +and you can also start devices externally, as standalone processes, see +linkzmq:zmq_deviced[1]. ERROR HANDLING -- cgit v1.2.3