[vtkusers] string compare bug?

[Jeff Lee]

Are you using vtkSocketController/vtkSocketCommunicator?  These objects 
already do this under the hood.
-Jeff

Kevin Wright wrote:

> I just tracked down what looks like an odd bug, and I was wondering if 
> anyone out there had any insight.
>
> I'm using a vtkPolyDataReader object to field incoming polydata 
> definitions through a socket.  I do this by reading the polydata from 
> the socket into a string, then using the input string in the 
> vtkDataReader.
>
> Everything generally worked fine, except in some cases the pipeline 
> would not update when new data came down the socket.  Eventually I 
> tracked the problem down to vtkDataReader::SetInputString which, 
> before assigning the string, does a string compare between the old and 
> new string.
>
> When the new and old datasets were very similar (usually identical 
> geometry, slightly changed scalar values) the strncmp would return a 
> match.  The string length was correct, and once the string compare was 
> removed, everything worked fine.
>
> I'm working on a Windows 2000 machine with VC++ 6.0.  I'm about to try 
> the same thing on IRIX and Linux to see what happens, but I was wondering:
>
> 1. Has anyone seen this kind of behavior before?
> 2. Should the string compare really be there at all, given that these 
> strings could be very long?
>
> Regards,
> Kevin.
>
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