From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Jonathan Roewen <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unix + UDP networking
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:03:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051205100318.GA6870@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad8cfe7e0512041813i49c7e19dk745ffdf489d961de@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:13:33PM +1300, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> I'm looking at the functions for sending/receiving over a
> datagram-based socket, and I'm confused about the return value of
> recvfrom.
>
> val recvfrom : file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> msg_flag list ->
> int * sockaddr
>
> What is the int value returned? The bytes actually read?
Have a look at the code in otherlibs/unix/sendrecv.c:unix_recvfrom.
The int is the return value from recvfrom(2), which is the number of
bytes received, or 0 if the peer has performed a shutdown.
Rich.
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