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Top Forums Programming Help with sockets in C Post 302510092 by Corona688 on Friday 1st of April 2011 01:53:04 PM
Old 04-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by omega666
but how?
if you read it waits until more data comes in, so if you put a while loop, it will just go into an infinite loop?
Have the loop break when a line's complete. Read one character at a time. This means send_message will need to write a \n after every message so the receiver can tell where it ends.

Code:
int pos=0;
bzero(buffer,MAXDATASIZE);

// Stop once we have an entire single line
while((buffer[pos] != '\n') && (pos < MAXDATASIZE))
{
        // Put new data 'pos' bytes ahead, so we don't overwrite the old
        ssize_t b=read(socket_fd, buffer+pos, 1); 
        if(b > 0) pos+=b;
        else break; // b<=0 means socket closed or socket error, so give up.
}

Quote:
so really if you read once, doesnt it read everything from the socket?
The receiving end isn't told how much the sending end sent. The socket doesn't necessarily send all the data at once, either. Plus there's travel time too. It's easily possible to read less than the sender wrote.

I see you've posted the client code now, I'll give it a quick look over.

Last edited by Corona688; 04-01-2011 at 02:58 PM..
 

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ldns(3) 						     Library Functions Manual							   ldns(3)

NAME
ldns_wire2rr, ldns_wire2pkt, ldns_wire2rdf, ldns_wire2dname- SYNOPSIS
#include <stdint.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <ldns/ldns.h> ldns_status ldns_wire2rr(ldns_rr **rr, const uint8_t *wire, size_t max, size_t *pos, ldns_pkt_section section); ldns_wire2pkt(); ldns_status ldns_wire2rdf(ldns_rr *rr, const uint8_t *wire, size_t max, size_t *pos); ldns_status ldns_wire2dname(ldns_rdf **dname, const uint8_t *wire, size_t max, size_t *pos); DESCRIPTION
ldns_wire2rr() converts the data on the uint8_t bytearray (in wire format) to a DNS resource record. This function will initialize and allocate memory space for the rr structure. The length of the wiredata of this rr is added to the *pos value. rr: pointer to the structure to hold the rdata value wire: pointer to the buffer with the data max: the length of the data buffer (in bytes) pos: the position of the rr in the buffer (ie. the number of bytes from the start of the buffer) section: the section in the packet the rr is meant for Returns LDNS_STATUS_OK if everything succeeds, error otherwise ldns_wire2pkt() ldns_wire2rdf() converts the data on the uint8_t bytearray (in wire format) to DNS rdata fields, and adds them to the list of rdfs of the given rr. This function will initialize and allocate memory space for the dname structures. The length of the wiredata of these rdfs is added to the *pos value. All rdfs belonging to the RR are read; the rr should have no rdfs yet. An error is returned if the format cannot be parsed. rr: pointer to the ldns_rr structure to hold the rdata value wire: pointer to the buffer with the data max: the length of the data buffer (in bytes) pos: the position of the rdf in the buffer (ie. the number of bytes from the start of the buffer) Returns LDNS_STATUS_OK if everything succeeds, error otherwise ldns_wire2dname() converts the data on the uint8_t bytearray (in wire format) to a DNS dname rdata field. This function will initialize and allocate memory space for the dname structure. The length of the wiredata of this rdf is added to the *pos value. dname: pointer to the structure to hold the rdata value wire: pointer to the buffer with the data max: the length of the data buffer (in bytes) pos: the position of the rdf in the buffer (ie. the number of bytes from the start of the buffer) Returns LDNS_STATUS_OK if everything succeeds, error otherwise AUTHOR
The ldns team at NLnet Labs. Which consists out of Jelte Jansen and Miek Gieben. REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs to ldns-team@nlnetlabs.nl or in our bugzilla at http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs/index.html COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2004 - 2006 NLnet Labs. Licensed under the BSD License. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO
ldns_rr2wire, ldns_pkt2wire, ldns_rdf2wire, ldns_dname2wire. And perldoc Net::DNS, RFC1034, RFC1035, RFC4033, RFC4034 and RFC4035. REMARKS
This manpage was automaticly generated from the ldns source code by use of Doxygen and some perl. 30 May 2006 ldns(3)
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