You're using blocking sockets, so read will not terminate until the connection is closed from the other end, or until 128 octets are read. I suppose the other side is sending data less than 128 octets ...

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Prior to Solaris 2.6, sockets were an abstraction that existed at the library level. That is, much of the socket state and socket semantics support were provided within the libsocket library. The ...

Simulated a race amongst four cell phone units to find their way with the help of two base stations and reach a target before running out of battery or going out of range. All communications took ...

Working with BSD sockets in C++, what is the easiest way to send to a packet of mixed data? I know it's simple to send an int, or a string, but how do you do both? something like:<BR>send(a_nint + ...