Charles Forsyth wrote:
Why the client always sends a second Tread request ?
If the Rread returned 281/8192 bytes and the msize is > 8192 it should
be clear that there is no other data to read.
no, because in general data can be returned as discrete messages (or records) of
different sizes. for instance with /net/cs and /net/dns each read returns a
single
recipe for making a connection or a single translation of a name.
it's true on unix too: think of a magnetic tape drive (probably you can a
description
in wikipedia if you never saw one).
Unfortunately I don't need the Wikipedia (first prog in 1975, Univac CII
10070, punched cards, ...). Nothing to be proud of, I would prefer to be
25 :-)
Could a EOD field in Rread be useful ? In some cases it would avoid
a lot of messages. I think a very small servers (mController) and low
channels.
Adriano
