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Hello
I have a nonblocking socket and I want to do recv(). Im being confused because I know when socket is readable it can receive some data that can be only a part of the whole data..
How should I know there is more data waiting to come so that I would store what I just got in the buffer and wait for next part of data and then process all what I got?
Thanks for help
It will be readable as long as there is some data.
Isnt there some kind of error EGAIN or something like that, that recv will return when theres no more data?
If you call recv and there is currently no data waiting in the input buffer then it will return -1 and the error will indicate this. Sorry I don't know about getting the extended error message on unix type systems I only know about windows.
But remember just because there is no information waiting in the input buffer there could still be some information traveling accross the network that hasn't arrive yet. tcp sockets should be treated as a stream. there is really no way to know how much data was sent unless the other side sends a header telling the reciever how much to expect or you send a deliminater at the end of all the data.