On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:13:33PM +1300, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> I'm looking at the functions for sending/receiving over a
> datagram-based socket, and I'm confused about the return value of
> recvfrom.
> 
> val recvfrom : file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> msg_flag list ->
> int * sockaddr
> 
> What is the int value returned? The bytes actually read?

Have a look at the code in otherlibs/unix/sendrecv.c:unix_recvfrom.
The int is the return value from recvfrom(2), which is the number of
bytes received, or 0 if the peer has performed a shutdown.

Rich.

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