Thread: Socket Select() Delimiter

Hello,
This is a tricky question,
I've been looking all over for an answer for this,
any help will be VERY appreciated...

I'm working on a Socket server which multiplexes
between the open sockets using the IO:Select()
function.

I have a loop that waits for data from any of
the sockets.

from what I experienced, the select function waits for a CR/LF delimiter and it knows it has data ready for reading...

how can I change the CR/LF delimiter into a different one ?

(I have a client application which I can't change who uses ascii#0 delimiter)

I'm compiling using GCC on cygwin,
but its going to run on Linux.

Much Thanks;
Lee.

Thanks,
I've been looking in the wrong direction...

ps: What do you think is the maximum connections a Select function can handle ?

I got up to 260 connections with Perl and I expect to get more with C...