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and are used to receive messages from a socket, and may be used to receive data on a socket whether or not it is connection-oriented. If is non-nil, and the socket is not connection-oriented, the source address of the message is filled in. is a value-result parameter, initialized to the size of the buffer associated with and modified on return to indicate the actual size of the address stored there. The call is normally used only on a socket (see and is identical to with a nil parameter. As it is redundant, it may not be supported in future releases. All three routines return the length of the message on successful completion. If a message is too long to fit in the supplied buffer, excess bytes may be discarded depending on the type of socket the message is received from (see If no messages are available at the socket, the receive call waits for a message to arrive, unless the socket is nonblocking (see in which case the value -1 is returned and the external variable set to The receive calls normally return any data available, up to the requested amount, rather than waiting for receipt of the full amount requested; this behavior is affected by the socket-level options and described in The call may be used to determine when more data arrive. The argument to a recv call is formed by one or more of the values: The flag requests receipt of out-of-band data that would not be received in the normal data stream. Some protocols place expedited data at the head of the normal data queue, and thus this flag cannot be used with such protocols. The MSG_PEEK flag causes the receive operation to return data from the beginning of the receive queue without removing that data from the queue. Thus, a subsequent receive call will return the same data. The MSG_WAITALL flag requests that the operation block until the full request is satisfied. However, the call may still return less data than requested if a signal is caught, an error or disconnect occurs, or the next data to be received is of a different type than that returned. The call uses a structure to minimize the number of directly supplied parameters. This structure has the following form, as defined in struct msghdr {    caddr_t    msg_name;    /* optional address */
   u_int    msg_namelen;    /* size of address */
   struct    iovec *msg_iov;    /* scatter/gather array */
   u_int    msg_iovlen;    /* # elements in msg_iov */
   caddr_t    msg_control;    /* ancillary data, see below */
   u_int    msg_controllen; /* ancillary data buffer len */
   int    msg_flags;    /* flags on received message */
}; Here and specify the destination address if the socket is unconnected; may be given as a null pointer if no names are desired or required. and describe scatter gather locations, as discussed in which has length points to a buffer for other protocol control related messages or other miscellaneous ancillary data. The messages are of the form: struct cmsghdr {    u_int    cmsg_len;    /* data byte count, including hdr */
   int    cmsg_level;    /* originating protocol */
   int    cmsg_type;    /* protocol-specific type */
/* followed by    u_char    cmsg_data[]; */
}; As an example, one could use this to learn of changes in the data-stream in XNS/SPP, or in ISO, to obtain user-connection-request data by requesting a recvmsg with no data buffer provided immediately after an call. Open file descriptors are now passed as ancillary data for domain sockets, with set to and set to The field is set on return according to the message received. indicates end-of-record; the data returned completed a record (generally used with sockets of type indicates that the trailing portion of a datagram was discarded because the datagram was larger than the buffer supplied. indicates that some control data were discarded due to lack of space in the buffer for ancillary data. is returned to indicate that expedited or out-of-band data were received.

RETURN VALUES

These calls return the number of bytes received, or -1 if an error occurred.

ERRORS

The calls fail if: The argument is an invalid descriptor. The socket is associated with a connection-oriented protocol and has not been connected (see and The argument does not refer to a socket. The socket is marked non-blocking, and the receive operation would block, or a receive timeout had been set, and the timeout expired before data were received. The receive was interrupted by delivery of a signal before any data were available. The receive buffer pointer(s) point outside the process’s address space.

SEE ALSO

HISTORY

The function call appeared in


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