Re: sockts and read() write()

[Dan White]

ranjith kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am new to socket programming.
>
>     There are  two programs(client on target machine, server on host
> machine ) , communicating through a single  socket.
>
> Server program writes data of (say) 100bytes, 200 bytes, 500 bytes and
> 1000bytes,  suceessively calling write() 4 times.
>
> My question is on client side, if  I call read() 4 times, will get
> 100bytes, 200bytes, 500bytes and 1000bytes of data successively and
> ALWAYS? Or is it possible that with a single read()  I  may get all
> 100+200+500+1000bytes of data???
>
> Where can I find more information about these read() and write()
> functions?
>   

Ranjith,

This article is recommended for background information on such topics:

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html

- Dan
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