reading partially from sockets

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Published on 2010-06-18T11:30:13Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 11:33 UTC
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I'm having a little test program that sends a lot of udp packets between client->server->client (ping/pong test). The packets are fixed size on each run(last run is max allowable size of udp packet) I'm filling the packets with random data except for the beginning of each packet that contains the packet number. So I'm only interested to see if I receive all the packets back at the client.

I'm using sendto() and recvfrom() and I only read the sizeof(packet_number) (which in this case is an int). What happens to the rest of the data? Does it end up in fairyland (gets discarded)? or does the new packet that arrives gets appended to this "old" data?

(using linux)

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