From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-10-30T08:21:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with socket.recv()

Frank Preiswerk wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm currently developing a Ruby TCP client and have a problem with
> socket.recv().
> After establishing a connection with my server, I exchange a couple of
> messages until the server begins to do some calculations based on the
> client's request that take about 10 seconds. After the server finishes, it
> sends back the result. Now my problem is that "data = socket.recv(size)"
> seems to behave non-blocking for some reason. It does not wait for the 10
> seconds but rather executes immediately and "data" remains empty. When I add
> "sleep(10)" before, it works...

#recv gives you data as soon as there is data available, not necessarily 
waiting for size bytes.

You may want to buffer it in your ruby code.

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