[ace-users] recv()

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Leon,

>On 7/9/07, Albert Sanchez <ouferrat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How can I know after recv() how many bytes were actually received and if
>> there's still something to receive??
>
>If I'm not mistaken, you provide recv () with a pointer to the buffer
>and the buffer size you want the fresh data to be stored in, and it
>returns the amount of bytes.

That's correct.  Here's the documentation from ACE_ROOT/ace/SOCK_IO.h:

/**
 * @class ACE_SOCK_IO
 *
 * @brief Defines the methods for the ACE socket wrapper I/O routines
 * (e.g., send/recv).
 *
 * If @a timeout == 0, then the call behaves as a normal
 * send/recv call, i.e., for blocking sockets, the call will
 * block until action is possible; for non-blocking sockets,
 * -1 will be returned with errno == EWOULDBLOCK if no action is
 * immediately possible.
 * If @a timeout != 0, the call will wait until the relative time
 * specified in *@a timeout elapses.
 * Errors are reported by -1 and 0 return values.  If the
 * operation times out, -1 is returned with <errno == ETIME>.
 * If it succeeds the number of bytes transferred is returned.
 * Methods with the extra <flags> argument will always result in
 * <send> getting called. Methods without the extra <flags>
 * argument will result in <send> getting called on Win32
 * platforms, and <write> getting called on non-Win32 platforms.
 */

> The best way to see whether a socket still has data available is to
> use a select ()-based event handling system, such as the Reactor. If
> an event arrives on the socket, and you have read 0 or -1 bytes, you
> know that the connection has been/should be closed.

Right!  Please see Chapter 3 and 4 of C++NPv2
<www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE/book2/> for more details and examples.

Thanks,

Doug
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