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The Windows Sockets recvfrom function receives a datagram and stores the source address.

int recvfrom (

SOCKET s,
char FAR* buf,
int len,
int flags,
struct sockaddr FAR* from,
int FAR* fromlen
);

Parameters

[in] A descriptor identifying a bound socket.

buf

[out] A buffer for the incoming data.

len

[in] The length of buf.

flags

[in] Specifies the way in which the call is made.

from

[out] An optional pointer to a buffer which will hold the source address upon return.

fromlen

[in/out] An optional pointer to the size of the from buffer.

Remarks

This function is used to read incoming data on a (possibly connected) socket and capture the address from which the data was sent.

For stream-oriented sockets such as those of type SOCK_STREAM, as much information as is currently available up to the size of the buffer supplied is returned. If the socket has been configured for in-line reception of out-of-band data (socket option SO_OOBINLINE) and out-of-band data is unread, only out-of-band data will be returned. The application can use the ioctlsocket SIOCATMARK to determine whether any more out-of-band data remains to be read. The from and fromlen parameters are ignored for connection-oriented sockets.

For message-oriented sockets, data is extracted from the first enqueued message, up to the size of the buffer supplied. If the datagram or message is larger than the buffer supplied, the buffer is filled with the first part of the datagram, and recvfrom generates the error WSAEMSGSIZE. For unreliable protocols (for example, UDP) the excess data is lost.

If from is nonzero, and the socket is not connection oriented (for example, type SOCK_DGRAM), the network address of the peer which sent the data is copied to the corresponding struct sockaddr. The value pointed to by fromlen is initialized to the size of this structure, and is modified on return to indicate the actual size of the address stored there.

If no incoming data is available at the socket, the recvfrom call waits for data to arrive unless the socket is nonblocking. In this case, a value of SOCKET_ERROR is returned with the error code set to WSAEWOULDBLOCK. The select, WSAAsyncSelect, or WSAEventSelect can be used to determine when more data arrives.

If the socket is connection oriented and the remote side has shut down the connection gracefully, a recvfrom will complete immediately with zero bytes received. If the connection has been reset recvfrom will fail with the error WSAECONNRESET.

Flags can be used to influence the behavior of the function invocation beyond the options specified for the associated socket. That is, the semantics of this function are determined by the socket options and the flags parameter. The latter is constructed by or-ing any of the following values:

Value	Meaning
MSG_PEEK	Peek at the incoming data. The data is copied into the buffer but is not removed from the input queue.
MSG_OOB	Process out-of-band data. (See section Out-Of-Band dataVFXYGI for a discussion of this topic.)

Return Values

If no error occurs, recvfrom returns the number of bytes received. If the connection has been gracefully closed, the return value is zero. Otherwise, a value of SOCKET_ERROR is returned, and a specific error code can be retrieved by calling WSAGetLastError.

Error Codes

WSANOTINITIALISED	A successful WSAStartup must occur before using this function.
WSAENETDOWN	The network subsystem has failed.
WSAEFAULT	The buf or from parameters are not part of the user address space, or the fromlen argument is too small to accommodate the peer address.
WSAEINTR	The (blocking) call was canceled through WSACancelBlockingCall.
WSAEINPROGRESS	A blocking Windows Sockets 1.1 call is in progress, or the service provider is still processing a callback function.
WSAEINVAL	The socket has not been bound with bind, or an unknown flag was specified, or MSG_OOB was specified for a socket with SO_OOBINLINE enabled, or (for byte stream style sockets only) len was zero or negative.
WSAENETRESET	The connection has been broken due to the remote host resetting.
WSAENOTCONN	The socket is not connected (connection-oriented sockets only).
WSAENOTSOCK	The descriptor is not a socket.
WSAEOPNOTSUPP	MSG_OOB was specified, but the socket is not stream style such as type SOCK_STREAM, out-of-band data is not supported in the communication domain associated with this socket, or the socket is unidirectional and supports only send operations.
WSAESHUTDOWN	The socket has been shut down; it is not possible to recvfrom on a socket after shutdown has been invoked with how set to SD_RECEIVE or SD_BOTH.
WSAEWOULDBLOCK	The socket is marked as nonblocking and the recvfrom operation would block.
WSAEMSGSIZE	The message was too large to fit into the specified buffer and was truncated.
WSAECONNABORTED	The virtual circuit was terminated due to a time-out or other failure. The application should close the socket as it is no longer usable.
WSAETIMEDOUT	The connection has been dropped, because of a network failure or because the system on the other end went down without notice.
WSAECONNRESET	The virtual circuit was reset by the remote side executing a hard or abortive close. The application should close the socket as it is no longer usable. On a UDP datagram socket this error would indicate that a previous send operation resulted in an ICMP "Port Unreachable" message.