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NAMEmrecvl - receives a messageSYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTIONThis 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:
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:
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 VALUEIn 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
SEE ALSOmrecv(3) msend(3) msendl(3) now(3)
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