[vtk-developers] Bad receive in vtkSocketCommunicator on Win32

[Berk Geveci]

Maybe there should be  a max number of tries to avoid infinite loops?

On 4/13/05, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> I've noticed a problem with vtkSocketCommunicator on windows.  When
> receiving a large message that should otherwise succeed (tags and
> lengths match up, buffer properly allocated), the recv function still
> sometimes fails.  Checking the error returned from WSAGetLastError()
> reveals the error WSAENOBUFS (apparently some sort of resource
> allocation problem).
> 
> I discovered that when I get this error, if I simply retry the recv, it
> will eventually work (at least in my case).  Should I patch
> vtkSocketCommunicator.cxx to always do this on windows?
> 
> -Ken
> 
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