The client program i have written uses SCTP sockets for communication. I am using sctp_recvmsg to read the data available for a particular user from socket. I have noticed that at times sctp_recvmsg returns 0 value instead of number of bytes read or -1 indicating an error. I have checked my code and the socket from which data is being read is not closed. Can someone throw light on how can such a behavior be seen?
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Sujay
According to this lksctp thread, sctp_recvmsg()
returns 0 if the other side closed the connection when you are in a 1-to-1 SCP connection (see here for an explanation of one-to-one and one-to-many connections) - that is, when you create the socket with SOCK_STREAM
instead of SOCK_SEQPACKET
.
Quoting:
Return values from sctp_sendmsg and sctp_recvmsg are not documented, but
I would suppose sctp_sendmsg would return -1 and set errno to ECONNRESET
same way as sendmsg does. However, what about sctp_recvnmsg? Plain
recvmsg should return 0 if half-connection is closed, but there are no
half-connections in SCTP. How does the function behave exactly?
The sctp_recvmsg() will return 0 on termination only on 1-to-1 sockets.
However, the above notifications will work on both styles.