Re: SETSOCKOPT question

Hi Scott,

"I'm really curious as to why you'd want to mess with this setting."

I was curious if this was an alternative (to enable increasing the size of
the data stream received in one read of the buffer) since I'm having a
problem with my socket server program where ~I think~ the end of data
stream I'm scanning for (x'1c0d' may be found in two subsequent reads of
the buffer (where one read of the buffer has the x'1c' and the next read
starts with the x'0d' which should be (logically) attached to the last
byte of the last buffer read).

I'm having a problem where when I receive data it appears that I'm
receiving beginning of data characters (x'0b') before I receive the end of
data characters (x'1c0d'). This has only happened 12 times out of over
3300 files I've received by the socket server last month.

But then I concluded that if the end of data characters being split
between two reads of the buffer really is the problem, then a larger data
stream wouldn't really solve my problem. (So I abandoned the idea of
trying to enlarge the maximum segment size.)

I've since changed my socket program to hopefully correct it by scanning
for the x'1c' (in addition to scanning for the full x'1c0d') and making an
assumption that when it (x'1c') is found that I can proceed as if it is
the end of the data. It's being tested right now. And as far as I know I
should never be receiving x'1c' except to signal 'message completion'
within the data stream received.

Thanks for responding.

Regards, Jerry

Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
4235 Secor Road
Toledo, OH 43623-4299
Phone 419-479-5535
gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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