Re: FILE* behaviour over BSD sockets - how?

From: Jem Berkes (jb_at_users.pc9.org)
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: 13 May 2004 15:37:27 GMT

>> The problem: I have to use a library (which I cannot modify) with an
>> API reading/writing records to FILE*. The data I have to read comes
>> through a socket. The socket has been set to blocking and I
>> successfully fdopen(socket). However, the API reads once in a while
>> incomplete records because the underlying socket calls seem to return
>> as soon as there is a packet to read but not when the whole requested
>> number of bytes has been read.
>
> I've never tried using it on sockets, but perhaps fdopen() will do the
> trick?

I had meant to try this myself on an earlier project. I just tried it now
under FreeBSD and it worked... fdopen on the socket with "r+" followed by
fgets and fprintf all worked as intended. 

-- 
Jem Berkes
http://www.sysdesign.ca/

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