Hi,

I was just trying to understand the send/recv socket calls. Does a send call
block if the receiver hasn't executed a recv for the number of bytes that a
sender is sending? For example if A sends 50 bytes to B and the code in B
just does a recv for 10, what exactly is going to happen? (I am using TCP
SOCK_STREAM) Does A just pretend that all the byes were sent or does it
block until the receiver receives all the bytes.

I am basically trying to get at the logic that I should be building into my
receiver. If I do not know how much data I am going to receive. What is the
logic I should use at the receiver in determining how many bytes to recv or
read from the byte stream?

I hope someone can help me with this. Thanks a lot!

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In article <cjj72o$n1u$1@gist.usc.edu>,
"DJP" <dominicjoseph@rediffmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was just trying to understand the send/recv socket calls.

I just answered this in another newsgroup -- please don't multipost.

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