Re: Temporary build

On 10 Apr 2003 at 09h03, Colin Leroy wrote:

Hi,

> > (A) Unless the socket is set to non-blocking, the only time that
> > read() will return less than the desired number of bytes is on EOF
> > (when the stream is closed).
> 
> Heh, sorry, i overlooked ext_connect_socket yesterday and read async
> instead of sync :-)

i really should wake up before replying to mails :)

from man 2 read again:
      "It is not an  error  if  this  number  is
       smaller  than the number of bytes requested; this may hap­
       pen for example because fewer bytes are actually available
       right  now "

0 is returned in case of EOF and -1 if there's an error.

from my patch:
+         if (errno == EAGAIN || i < remaining) {
+                 sleep(1);
+                 tries++;
+         }

what you don't need here is the errno==EAGAIN check as your sockets are
blocking. 
-- 
Colin -
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