Re: Socket programming

Ardhan Madras wrote:

> I was written small network utility in Linux 2.6, glibc 2.7.
> I have been using send() and recv() system call in SOCK_STREAM
> to send or receive fixed size data. for example, i write my data 
> structure like this:
> 
> struct foo
> {
>   char name[16];
>   char pix[1024];
>   int id;
> } bar;
> 
> If i want to send or receive data i just call
> 
> send (socket, &bar, sizeof(struct foo), 0);
> 
> or to receive:
> recv (socket, &bar, sizeof(struct foo), 0);

Apart from the comments which have already been made:

There's no reason to use send() and recv() if the flags argument is
zero. You may as well use read() and write(). Or convert the
descriptor to a FILE* with fdopen() and use fread() and fwrite().

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Glynn Clements <[email protected]>