From 8b85dd21918ee5b0139ca99e889ebdb68fbeda25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dennis Klein <d.klein@gsi.de>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 16:49:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] support inproc addresses

---
 fairmq/FairMQChannel.cxx | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fairmq/FairMQChannel.cxx b/fairmq/FairMQChannel.cxx
index 8972dac7..54040f8a 100644
--- a/fairmq/FairMQChannel.cxx
+++ b/fairmq/FairMQChannel.cxx
@@ -541,6 +541,18 @@ bool FairMQChannel::ValidateChannel()
                         return false;
                     }
                 }
+                else if (address.compare(0, 9, "inproc://") == 0)
+                {
+                    // check if IPC address is not empty
+                    string addressString = address.substr(9);
+                    if (addressString == "")
+                    {
+                        ss << "INVALID";
+                        LOG(DEBUG) << ss.str();
+                        LOG(ERROR) << "invalid channel address: \"" << address << "\" (empty inproc address?)";
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                }
                 else
                 {
                     // if neither TCP or IPC is specified, return invalid