[Mono-list] System.Net.Sockets.NetowrkStream Flaw/Inconsistency/Wierdness

[Gonzalo Paniagua Javier]

El mar, 03-08-2004 a las 17:35, Scott Manley escribió:
> So the NetworkStream class sits on top of  the Socket class and provides 
> a stream like interface, one of the methods has a problem which probably 
> needs fixing to make the class halfway useful.
> 
> The Write method is supposed to let us write data to an open stream and 
> does this by calling Send on the underlying socket.....
> 
>         public override void Write (byte [] buffer, int offset, int size)
>         {
> ...
> ...
> ...
>             try {
>                 socket.Send (buffer, offse, size, 0);
>             } catch (Exception e) {
>                 throw new IOException ("Write failure", e);
>             }
>         }
> 
> However it's possible for Send to write less than the requested amount 
> of data to the socket, it returns the number of bytes written - since 
> the Write method returns void we should be ensuring the write is 
> complete before leaving the function. Otherwise you end up like me and 
> spend hours wondering why NetworkStream objects sometimes lose data.....
> So we need to wrap our socket.Send with enough logic to handle 
> potentially multiple writes...

Can you file this as a bug report? (http://bugzilla.ximian.com) And if
you have a test case, please, attach it. Thanks.

-Gonzalo