Thread: reading multiple lines from a socket

Hi;

I want to be able to send multiple writes over a socket and be able to read the multiple data. Now i can write the data no problem but when i read it, it seems to get messed up, and i put an counter in the loop and its value is 7 even though i only send 4 pieces of info over, here is the code

Code:

//cleint
while(fgets(line, sizeof line, fp) )
     write(sockfd, line, strlen(line)+1));


//server
while(read(new_fd, buffer, strlen(buffer) )
       printf("%s\n", buffer);

Any ideas?

Thanks

Why are you using strlen(buffer) on the server side? That value will be constantly changing. Pass the actual size of the buffer. Check the return value of read to get the actual bytes read (and come to think of it, check the return value of write to make sure the data was sent).

ok, i have it working, was the lenght of the strlen of buffer, so why was the strlen causing the problem?

Well think about it. Let's say you receive "\0" (one byte) in one call. The next time around, the buffer "size" (eg: strlen(buffer)) is going to be 0. See?

Yes i do, that makes total sense.

Thanks a mill.