I want to use select system call to multiplex STDIN and SOCKFD (connected to a server) such that I must be listening to both STDIN and SOCKFD and depending upon where the data is available for read I must proceed further.
Note: #define STDIN 0
This is what happens when I do the following.
The problem with this set up is that FD_ISSET is always true for both the fd. Once I get connected to the server I see FD_ISSET(sockfd, &readset) is always true and so is FD_ISSET(STDIN, &readset) whether, the server is sending data or not or if I am entering data from keyboard or not.
What could I be doing wrong?
/* connection successful */
FD_ZERO(&connset);
while(1) {
FD_SET(sockfd,&connset); /* add sockfd to connset */
FD_SET(STDIN,&connset); /* add STDIN to connset */
fdmax=sockfd;
if(select(fdmax+1,&readset,NULL,NULL,NULL)<0){
fprintf(stdout, "select() error\n");
exit(0);
}
/* select returned
* check which socket is set
*/
if(FD_ISSET(sockfd,&connset)) {
/*
* Server sends msglen
* client reads msg of length msglen
* client prints it to stdout
* client waits for next activity of its listen sockets
*/
size=4;
ptr=(char *)&msglen;
while(1) {
if((nread=recv(sockfd,ptr,size,0)),MSG_DONTWAIT) {
close(sockfd);
exit(0);
}
size-=nread;
ptr+=nread;
}
bytesToRead = ntohl(msglen);
readbuf = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char)*(bytesToRead+1));
ptr=readbuf;
while(1) {
nread=recv(sockfd,ptr,bytesToRead,MSG_DONTWAIT);
if(nread<=0) {
close(sockfd);
exit(0);
}
bytesToRead-=nread;
ptr+=nread;
}
/* msg read successfully */
*ptr='\0';
fprintf(stdout, "in: %s\n",readbuf);
free(readbuf);
}
if(FD_ISSET(STDIN,&connset)) {
/* data at STDIN */
fgets(buf,2,stdin); /* read the first newline char (< enter >) */
fprintf(stdout,"Enter msg: ");
fgets(buf,MAXLEN,stdin); /* read the msg */
buf[strlen(buf)-1]='\0';
msglen = htonl((uint32_t)(strlen(buf)-1));
ptr = (char *)&msglen;
bytesToSend = sizeof(uint32_t);
cnt = bytesToSend;
while(cnt>0) {
if((nsent=send(sockfd,ptr,cnt,0))>0) {
cnt-=nsent;
ptr+=nsent;
}
else {
fprintf(stdout,"send error\n");
exit(0);
}
}
ptr=buf;
bytesToSend=(uint32_t)(strlen(buf)-1);
cnt=bytesToSend;
while(cnt>0) {
if((nsent=send(sockfd,ptr,cnt,0))>0) {
cnt-=nsent;
ptr+=nsent;
}
else {
fprintf(stdout,"send error\n");
exit(0);
}
}
}
}
return 0;
}
What is STDIN? There is stdin which is declared in <stdio.h>
, is a FILE* and not a file descriptor so can't be used in an fdset and STDIN_FILENO, which is defined in <unistd.h>
and is a file descriptor and thus can be used with fdsets.
BTW, in <stdio.h>
there is also a function fileno()
which returns the file descriptor of a FILE* (depending on your compilation flags, you may need to define some feature macros to get the declaration).