On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 00:35:12 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 00:31:37 UTC, Gan wrote:
Or am I misunderstanding the receive function? Does it send
whole messages or just message chunks?
It sends as much as it can when you call it. So if there's only
12 bytes available when you send it with a 4096 buffer, it will
fill the first twelve bytes (and return 12) so you can slice it
buffer[0 .. returnedValue] to get the data.
If there's more available than the buffer will hold, that data
will be held on to until next time you call receive. If 5000
bytes come off the network, it will return 4096 the first time,
then next time through the loop, it will return the remaining
904.
How can you distinguish between different packets that get sent?
Won't they all be merged to a giant blob of data?