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.TH zmq_init 3 "" "(c)2007-2009 FastMQ Inc." "0MQ User Manuals"
.SH NAME
zmq_init \- initialises 0MQ context
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B void *zmq_init (int app_threads, int io_threads, int flags);
.SH DESCRIPTION
Initialises 0MQ context. 
.IR app_threads
specifies maximal number of application threads that can own open sockets
at the same time. At least one application thread should be defined.
.IR io_threads
specifies the size of thread pool to handle I/O operations. The value shouldn't
be negative. Zero can be used in case only in-process messaging is going to be
used, i.e. there will be no I/O traffic.
'flags' argument is a combination of the flags defined below:

.IP "\fBZMQ_POLL\fP"
flag specifying that the sockets within this context should be pollable (see
.IR zmq_poll
). Pollable sockets may add a little latency to the message transfer when
compared to non-pollable sockets.

.SH RETURN VALUE
Function returns context handle is successful. Otherwise it returns NULL and
sets errno to one of the values below.
.SH ERRORS
.IP "\fBEINVAL\fP"
- there's less than one application thread allocated, or number of I/O threads
is negative.
.SH EXAMPLE
.nf
void *ctx = zmq_init (1, 1, ZMQ_POLL);
assert (ctx);
.fi
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR zmq_term (3)
.SH AUTHOR
Martin Sustrik <sustrik at 250bpm dot com>