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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:07:19 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Socket read problem on Windows XP Pro & Cygwin
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On Oct 22 07:06, Todd Rearick wrote:
>     while(1)
> 	{
> 	char buf[80];
> 	int len;
> 
> 		len = recv(infd,buf,1,0);
> 
> 		if (len < 1)
> 		{
> 			printf("len = %d\n",len);
>             printf("errno = %d\n",errno);
>             printf("This means %s\n", strerror(errno));
>             sleep(1);

What you're entirely missing at this point is the fact that a return
value of 0 (zero) indicates EOF.  You don't test for this.  Instead
you're also testing errno in case of EOF, which has no meaning in this
case.


Corinna

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