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authorDimitri Staessens <[email protected]>2018-03-12 17:27:10 +0100
committerSander Vrijders <[email protected]>2018-03-12 18:39:15 +0100
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lib: Allow partial read
This implements partial read of packets if the buffer supplied to flow_read() is smaller than the packet in the buffer. If the number of bytes returned by flow_read equals the size of the buffer, the next read() will deliver the next bytes of the packet (or 0 if the packet was exactly the size of the buffer on the previous read). Implements #7. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders <[email protected]>
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@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@ from the supplied buffer \fIbuf\fR to the flow specified by \fIfd\fR.
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success, \fBflow_read\fR() returns the number of bytes read. On
-failure, a negative value indicating the error will be returned.
+failure, a negative value indicating the error will be returned. If
+the number of bytes read equals count, a subsequent call to
+\fBflow_read\fR() should be performed to check if there were more
+bytes to read. This call to \fBflow_read\fR will return 0 if there
+was no more data and mark the end of the datagram.
On success, \fBflow_write\fR() returns 0. On failure, a negative value
indicating the error will be returned. Passing a NULL pointer for