Attention: Answers.ros.org is deprecated as of August the 11th, 2023. Please visit robotics.stackexchange.com to ask a new question. This site will remain online in read-only mode during the transition and into the foreseeable future. Selected questions and answers have been migrated, and redirects have been put in place to direct users to the corresponding questions on Robotics Stack Exchange. Additional details are available here.

Revision history [back]

Hi,

This is perfectly safe, in fact it is often done with the /tf topic. As long as you keep in mind that when you publish something, that node will also receive that message again. If you then in that callback publish a new message on the same topic again, you get an endless 'loop' ;).

ROS Answers is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license.