Re: recv not completely overwriting last string

From: Erik Max Francis (max_at_alcyone.com)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:48:19 -0800

Robert wrote:

> Is it me or is the recv() function not erasing but only overwriting
> the last
> data it supplied?

recv does not NUL-terminate strings, it just deals with char buffers.
Use the return value to determine how many characters got sent, and then
decide what you want to do with that result. 

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