libdill: Structured Concurrency for C

NAME

mrecvl - receives a message

SYNOPSIS

#include <libdill.h>

ssize_t mrecvl(
    int s,
    struct iolist* first,
    struct iolist* last,
    int64_t deadline);

DESCRIPTION

This function receives message from a socket. It is a blocking operation that unblocks only after entire message is received. There is no such thing as partial receive. Either entire message is received or no message at all.

This function accepts a linked list of I/O buffers instead of a single buffer. Argument first points to the first item in the list, last points to the last buffer in the list. The list represents a single, fragmented message, not a list of multiple messages. Structure iolist has the following members:

void *iol_base;          /* Pointer to the buffer. */
size_t iol_len;          /* Size of the buffer. */
struct iolist *iol_next; /* Next buffer in the list. */
int iol_rsvd;            /* Reserved. Must be set to zero. */

When receiving, iol_base equal to NULL means that iol_len bytes should be skipped.

The function returns EINVAL error in the case the list is malformed:

If last->iol_next is not NULL.
If first and last don't belong to the same list.
If there's a loop in the list.
If iol_rsvd of any item is non-zero.

The list (but not the buffers themselves) can be temporarily modified while the function is in progress. However, once the function returns the list is guaranteed to be the same as before the call.

s: The socket.

first: Pointer to the first item of a linked list of I/O buffers.

last: Pointer to the last item of a linked list of I/O buffers.

deadline: A point in time when the operation should time out, in milliseconds. Use the now function to get your current point in time. 0 means immediate timeout, i.e., perform the operation if possible or return without blocking if not. -1 means no deadline, i.e., the call will block forever if the operation cannot be performed.

If both first and last arguments are set to NULL the message is received and silently dropped. The function will still return the size of the message.

RETURN VALUE

In case of success the function returns size of the received message, in bytes. In case of error it returns -1 and sets errno to one of the values below.

ERRORS