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[ILUG] force socket to write

[ILUG] force socket to write

Caolan McNamara cmc at stardivision.de
Tue Apr 25 19:02:01 IST 2000


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 25.04.00, 18:53:09, "Brady, Padraig" <Padraig.Brady at compaq.com> wrote 
regarding RE: [ILUG] force socket to write:


> I think this only applies to streams,
> and hence will not work for sockets?
> Messing with protocol buffers is not
> trivial.

Personally whenever I can, I fdopen the file descriptor returned by 
socket and use that FILE *. Much more robust and safe, no fixed length 
arrays to worry about overwriting. Its fine for uncomplicated things.

C.






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