Can a socket be made non-blocking only for the recv() function?
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For windows, you can use ioctlsocket() to set the socket in non-blocking mode. Unfortunately these settings apply to all operations on the socket. So for your case you'll have to switch it between the receivings and the sendings.
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For linux, you could have used the MSG_DONTWAIT flag in the recv() call arguments. The single call will then be non blocking.
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Updated on September 15, 2022Comments
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I want to be able to call
recv()without having to block, so I want to make it non-blocking, but I do not want it to be non blocking when sending data. So can a socket be made non-blocking only for therecv()function, or does the blocking/non-blocking mode affects all of the socket functions?-
vpalmu about 9 yearsYes but last I checked recv() won't block if there's even 1 byte of data.
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