From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-08-15T01:06:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Marshal

>>>>> "B" == Berger, Daniel <djberge@qwest.com> writes:

B> Ok, I've narrowed it down partially to a newline issue with Marshal.  Here
B> are a sample client and server to demonstrate.  Just start the server in one
B> terminal and the client in another.  Uncomment the appropriate lines to view
B> the different behavior.  More comments at end...

 use #read and #write rather than #puts #gets

[...]

B> while true
B>    Thread.start(tcpServer.accept) do |s|
B>       puts "Accepted connection: #{s}"
B>       r = s.gets
B>       puts "Got #{r} from client"
B>       s.puts(x)

         s.write([x.size].pack("N") + x)

B>       s.close
B>    end
B> end

[...]

B> v = s.gets

   v = s.read(s.read(4).unpack("N")[0])

 You can also verify that the string read has the good size


Guy Decoux