ZMQ recv() is blocking even after the context was terminated - c++

Question

I did my best to follow the instructions in the ZMQ termination whitepaper, but so far I'm failing miserably.
I have a parent class, which spawns a listener thread (using win32-pthreads).
Accoring to the whitepaper, when terminating, I should set the _stopped flag, delete the context, which in turn would call zmq_term() and release the blocking recv(). Instead, what I get is either:
calling delete _zmqContext crashes the application (probably with a segmentation fault)
replacing the delete with zmq_term(_zmqContext) does not release the blocking recv()
I'm adding a partial code sample, which is long because I'm not sure which part may be important.
AsyncZmqListener.hpp:
class AsyncZmqListener
{
public:
AsyncZmqListener(const std::string uri);
~AsyncZmqListener();
bool Start();
void Stop();
private:
static void* _threadEntryFunc(void* _this);
void _messageLoop();
private:
bool _stopped;
pthread_t _thread;
zmq::context_t* _zmqContext;
};
AsyncZmqListener.cpp:
AsyncZmqListener::AsyncZmqListener(const std::string uri) : _uri(uri)
{
_zmqContext = new zmq::context_t(1);
_stopped = false;
}
void AsyncZmqListener::Start()
{
int status = pthread_create(&_thread, NULL, _threadEntryFunc, this);
}
void AsyncZmqListener::Stop()
{
_stopped = true;
delete _zmqContext; // <-- Crashes the application. Changing to 'zmq_term(_zmqContext)' does not terminate recv()
pthread_join(_thread, NULL); // <-- This waits forever
}
void AsyncZmqListener::_messageLoop()
{
zmq::socket_t listener(*_zmqContext, ZMQ_PULL);
listener.bind(_uri.c_str());
zmq::message_t message;
while(!_stopped)
{
listener.recv(&message); // <-- blocks forever
process(message);
}
}
P.S.
I'm aware of this related question, but none of the answers quite match the clean exit flow described in the whitepaper. I will resolve to polling if I have to...

Answer 1

ZMQ recv() did unblock after its related context was terminated
I was not aware that recv() throws an ETERM exception when this happens.
Revised code that works:
void AsyncZmqListener::_messageLoop()
{
zmq::socket_t listener(*_zmqContext, ZMQ_PULL);
listener.bind(_uri.c_str());
zmq::message_t message;
while(!_stopped)
{
try
{
listener.recv(&message);
process(message);
}
catch(const zmq::error_t& ex)
{
// recv() throws ETERM when the zmq context is destroyed,
// as when AsyncZmqListener::Stop() is called
if(ex.num() != ETERM)
throw;
}
}
}