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Old 10-23-2009, 01:39 AM   #1
chakka.lokesh
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read / recv function in TCP server program (C Lang.) is not working.


i wrote a TCP server in C language. Code is as follows

Code:
using namespace std;

#include<arpa/inet.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<fstream>
#include<iostream>

main()
{
	int sockfd;
	struct sockaddr_in cli_addr,server_addr;
	char buffer[100];
	ofstream myfile;
	socklen_t clilen;

	if( (sockfd = socket(PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0)) < 0 )
	{
		cout<<"server - unable to open the socket."<<endl;
		exit(1);
	}
	server_addr.sin_family            =       PF_INET;
	server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr       =       inet_addr("172.16.16.33");
	server_addr.sin_port              =       htons(2009);
	if( bind(sockfd,(struct sockaddr*)&server_addr,sizeof(server_addr)) < 0 )
	{
		cout<<"Server - unable to bind the local address";
		exit(1);
	}
	listen(sockfd,1);
	while(1)
	{
		clilen = sizeof(cli_addr);
		bzero(buffer,100);
		if(accept(sockfd, (struct sockaddr*)&cli_addr, &clilen) < 0)
		{
			cout<<"Server - unable to accept the connection from client.";
                        exit(1);
		}
		if(recv(sockfd,buffer,100,0)<0)
		{
			cout<<"Server - unable to read the data from the socket.";
			exit(1);
		}
		myfile.open("data_file",ios::app);
		if(!myfile.is_open())
		{
			cout<<"Server - Unable to open file to write alert"<<endl;
			exit(1);
		}
		myfile<<buffer;
		myfile.close();
		}
	close(sockfd);
}
I tried the recv / read function for reading the data from the socket.
But it is not able to read the data from the socket. Always it is returning -1 and exit function is executing. I tried even as root user. Still same problem. Don't know where is the bug.

Client program is working correctly. it returning the correct number of bytes when I use write/send function.

can any one please help me sorting out this issue.

thanks.
 
Old 10-24-2009, 01:11 PM   #2
Wim Sturkenboom
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Accept returns a new socket descriptor that you need to use for the recv and send functions.

See the simple-server example here

Further there is a dedicated programming section here at LQ.
 
Old 10-25-2009, 09:43 PM   #3
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wim Sturkenboom View Post
Accept returns a new socket descriptor that you need to use for the recv and send functions.
thanks. I corrected the code. It is working fine now.
thanks a lot.
 
  


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