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().
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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