Example
Even when sockets are in "blocking" mode, the read and write operations on them do not necessarily read and write all the data available to be read or written. In order to write an entire buffer into a socket, or read a known quantity of data from a socket, they must be called in a loop.
/*
* Writes all bytes from buffer into sock. Returns true on success, false on failure.
*/
bool write_to_socket(int sock, const char* buffer, size_t size) {
size_t total_bytes = 0;
while(total_bytes < size) {
ssize_t bytes_written = write(sock, buffer + total_bytes, size - total_bytes);
if(bytes_written >= 0) {
total_bytes += bytes_written;
} else if(bytes_written == -1 && errno != EINTR) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
/*
* Reads size bytes from sock into buffer. Returns true on success; false if
* the socket returns EOF before size bytes can be read, or if there is an
* error while reading.
*/
bool read_from_socket(int sock, char* buffer, size_t size) {
size_t total_bytes = 0;
while(total_bytes < size) {
ssize_t new_bytes = read(sock, buffer + total_bytes, size - total_bytes);
if(new_bytes > 0) {
total_bytes += new_bytes;
} else if(new_bytes == 0 || (new_bytes == -1 && errno != EINTR)) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
